Michael Gungor Quotes
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The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
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Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.
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I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
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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.
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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.
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Faith comes from listening to the right stories.
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Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
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Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
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The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
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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.
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Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.
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You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust
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Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.
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There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
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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?
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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.
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Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.
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Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken
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To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.
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If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.
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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.
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I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?
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If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.
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I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.
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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.
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We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.
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