Body Quotes

I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul, something our body has to have. It’s important to understand the power of music.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn’t be triggered by a normal voice.

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.