52 Quotes by Michael Gungor

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

I don’t want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

Art is the body’s pronunciation of the soul.

There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that’s not the whole story.

I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.