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. Michael Gungor More Quotes by Michael Gungor More Quotes From Michael Gungor It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. Michael Gungor fit kind art 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. Michael Gungor reality ideas art I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world. Michael Gungor should-have christian thinking To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. Michael Gungor imaginary genre marketing To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel. Michael Gungor differences christian reality One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is that it would just open people's hearts and that they would experience love, and that that would experience God. Michael Gungor numbers people art When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly. Michael Gungor becoming political thinking Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much. Michael Gungor christian perfect culture I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it? Michael Gungor singing heart thinking I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that. Michael Gungor growing-up kids thinking To me, God is the basic Reality of the universe. God is what is. That's how Moses wrote that God introduced Himself, isn't it? "I am that I am." God is. Whatever is, that is God. Michael Gungor moses universe reality This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive. Michael Gungor cost caring hurt The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself. Michael Gungor noise may art Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul. Michael Gungor body soul art The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit. Michael Gungor successful trying people There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. Michael Gungor used eye reason
