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Some of Our Favourite Quotes
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If you have a favourite quote you would like to share,
please contact Stephanie at alaria@syrynx.net.
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The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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For us, as a family, music is like food. When you need it
you don't have to explain why, because it is basic to life.
- Ali Akbar Khan
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Music is a moral
law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to
the imagination, and charm and gaity to life and to everything.
-Plato
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If your heart is in the right place the flute will take care of itself
-Paul Thompson, Navajo culture-bearer, traditional American Indian flute maker
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When words fail
Music speaks
-Unknown
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I've always
told the musicians in my band to play what they know
and then play above that.
Because
then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
-Miles Davis |
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The melody is
generally what the piece is all about.
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,
"Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes."
And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?"
My answer to that would be, "No."
-Aaron Copland |
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A true
tradition is not the witnessing of a past closed and finished;
it is a living force that animates and informs the present.
-Igor Stravinsky |
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If music be the
food of love, play on.
-William Shakespeare |
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Being famous
was extremely
disappointing for me. When I became
famous, it was a complete drag,
and it is still a complete drag.
-Van Morrison |
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You've got to
love to be able to play.
-Louis Armstrong |
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Music expresses
that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo |
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Everything
else can wait, but the
search for God cannot.
-George Harrison |
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Music is
self-expression.
Singing is how I pray,
and the music is my religion.
-Chaka Khan |
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It's not
about how much you know, it's how much you hear that counts.
-Benny Carter, Saxophonist and Composer, to Ira Nepus, Trombonist |
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The aim and
final reason
of all music should be nothing else
but the Glory of God and the
refreshment of the spirit.
-Johann Sebastian Bach |
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I know nothing
at all about music.
-Richard Wagner |
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I say, play
your own way. Don't play what the public wants. . . .
You play what you want, and let the public pick up on what you are
doing,
even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.
-Thelonious Monk |
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Thank God for
those twins
called grace and mercy.
-Richard Smallwood |
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Our sweetest
songs are those
that tell of saddest thought.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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[I think] humor
is incredibly important. . . .
You have to be able
to laugh at yourself and your place
in the universe. . . . For me, life
would be so empty without humour. . . .
It would be like life without music.
-Jerry Garcia |
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Learning music
by reading about it
is like making love
by mail.
-Isaac Stern |
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Composers often
tell you that they don't read criticisms of their work. . . .
I am an exception. I admit to a curiosity about the slightest
clue as to the meaning
of a piece of mine -- a meaning, that is, other than the one I know I
have put there.
-Aaron Copland |
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You can play a
shoestring if you're sincere.
-John Coltrane |
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I never
understood the need for a "live" audience. My music,
because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
-Igor Stravinsky |
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A
young, would-be composer wrote to Mozart, asking advice as to how to
compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and
demanding musical form and that it would be better to start with
something simpler.
"But Herr Mozart," the young man protested, 'you wrote symphonies
when you were younger than I am now."
I never asked how.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as recounted by Isaac Asimov
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I'll
play it first
and tell you what it is later.
-Miles Davis |
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Fame is an
illusion.
-Jerry Garcia |
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I would advise
you to keep your overhead down,
avoid a major drug habit, play everyday, and take it in front of other
people.
They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
-James Taylor |
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Freedom in
music, to me, is the freedom of choice, not playing everything
that you know. . . . It is the freedom to play one note--if the
note is the
thing that moves the heart and forces the soul, that's the note to play.
If it is a hundred notes, play a hundred notes.
-Rodney Jones, Jazz Guitarist |
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It's not a
question of Indian Music or American music.
Any kind of music, in rhythm, in tune, gives you food for your soul.
-Ali Akbar Khan |
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There is no
truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.
-Robert Browning |
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I'm sensitive,
I feel the hurt, and the pain like everybody else does.
But the difference is, I don't see no barriers. Peoople may try
to block you,
but they can only block you if you give them power.
-Andy Bey, Pianist and Vocalist |
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Music is the
art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu |
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Composition is
notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before.
Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
-Ned Rorem
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You don't need
any brains to listen to music.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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Music and
rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the state,
For when modes of music change, the laws of the state always change
with them.
-Plato |
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Music is an
outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius |
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Clouds float
in the same pattern
only once.
-Wayne Shorter, to Jeff Clayton, Saxophonist, on his own
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The great
challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness,
we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game
do not
come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society
leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another
drummer.
-Hubert Humphrey |
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There is no
feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief,
that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot |
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Music is a
beautiful opiate,
If you don't take it too seriously.
-Henry Miller |
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It's a
marvelous feeling when someone says, "I want to do this song of yours,"
because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
-Mary Chapin Carpenter |
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Music is God's
gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth,
the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-Walter Savage Landor
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The artist must
say it without saying it.
-Duke Ellington |
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The notes I
handle no better than many pianists.
But the pauses between the notes --ah--
that is where the art resides.
-Arthur Schnabel |
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Give me a
laundry list and I'll set it to music.
-Gioacchino A. Rossini |
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A painter
paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on
silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
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A good composer
is slowly discovered;
a bad composer is slowly found out.
-Ernest Newman |
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Music gives a
soul to the universe.
-Plato |
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The music in my
heart I bore. Long after it was heard no more.
-William Wordsworth |
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The sign of a
mature musician
is knowing what not to play.
-Dizzy Gillepie |
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If I don't
practice for one day,
I know it; if I don't practice for two days,
the critics know it; if I don't practice
for three days, the audience knows it.
-Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Cellist |
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I have learned
throughout my life as a composer
chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions,
not by my exposure to wisdom and founts of knowledge.
-Igor Stravinsky |
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My main goal is
to tell a story.
-Stephen Sondheim |
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After silence,
that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Alduous Huxley |
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You know what's
the
loudest noise in the world, man?
The loudest noise
in the world is silence.
-Thelonious Monk |
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Music was my
refuge. I could crawl into the space between
the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
-Maya Angelou |
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One more time.
. . .
-Count Basie |
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We are the
music makers, and we are the dreamer of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
-Arthur O'Shaunessey |
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All good music
has healing potential.
-Horace Silver |
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I let nature
take its course. I don't sit at the piano and think, I'm going to
write the
greatest song of all time. . . . It has to be given to you.
I believe it's already up there
before you are born, and then it drops right into your lap. It's
the most spiritual
thing in the world. . . . Sometimes I feel guilty putting my name
on the songs. . .
because it's as if the heavens have done it already.
-Michael Jackson |
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We never play
anything the same way once.
-Shelly Manne |
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Learning to read
music in Braille
and play by ear
helped me develop
a damn good memory.
-Ray Charles |
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Music washes
away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Berthold Auerbach
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Isn't the
artist's real job to learn from nature?
Instead of churning out pop hits, shouldn't the truly talented
among us be listening to the flutter of a butterfly's wing?
-Marvin Gaye
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If the music is
eccentric, I have to be.
Anybody talented in any way--
they're called eccentric.
-Thelonious Monk |
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One good thing
about music: When it hits you, you feel no pain.
-T. J. Christofore |
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I have my own
particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But
sorrow,
gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and
in all places.
Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their
universality.
-H. A. Overstreet
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Every mistake
is a new style.
-Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulai, a Drummer from North Ghana, as told by Eric
Rucker
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I think
music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of
humanity.
It's something we are all touched by.
No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
-Billy Joel
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Music is the
soul of language.
-Max Heindel
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Music hath
charms to soothe
the savage breast,
to soften rocks,
to bend a troubled oak.
-William Congreve
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If you sit
still long enough,
a butterfly might come
and sit on your shoulder.
-Albert "Tootie" Heath, Drummer, quoting his Mother
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Music is love
in search of a word.
-Sidney Lanier
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The
subconscious is often impressed through music.
Music has a fourth-dimensional quality
and releases the soul from imprisonment. It makes wonderful
things
seem possible, and easy of accomplishment!
-Florence Scovel Shinn
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My idea is that
there is music in the air, music all round us,
the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
-Sir Edward Elgar
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The flute is
not an instrument with a good moral effect.
It is too exciting.
-Aristotle
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Music is your
own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
They teach you there's no boundary line to music.
But, man, there's no boundary line in art.
-Charlie Parker
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I got the
impression from him that he wasn't playing--he was singing.
When you're trying to sing from the soul, that's just how it comes out.
-Kurt Whalum, on Grover Washington, Jr.
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Without music,
life would be an error.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Milton, of all
people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required
to
play jazz: 'with wanton heed and giddy cunning." That's how
you play jazz.
-Paul Desmond
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No two people
on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way with music, or it isn't
music.
-Billie Holiday
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Music is the
divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
-Pablo Casals
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How can one
express the indefinable sensation that
one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that
has no definite subject? it is a purely lyrical process.
It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself
through sounds, just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry.
. . .
As the poet Heine said, "Where words leave off, music begins."
-Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Do you know
that our soul is composed of harmony?
-Leonardo Da Vinci
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Do you know
what the secret of success is? Be yourself and have some fun.
-Tito Puente, to Awilda Rivera, the Host of Evening Jazz and The
Latin Jazz Cruise on Jazz 88.3 FM, WBGO, Newark
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Blues is a good
woman
feeling bad.
-Thomas A. Dorsey
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Bach is like an
astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most
wonderful stars. . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the
power of
his spirit. . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago,
I decided
that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
-Frederic Chopin
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There are more
love songs than anything else. If songs could make
you do something, we'd all love one another.
-Frank Zappa
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Music
rearranges your molecular structure.
-Carlos Santana
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There is so
much to be done
on earth, do it soon!
I cannot carry on the everyday life I am living;
art demands this sacrifice, too.
Rest, diversion, amusement--
only so that I can
function more powerfully in my art.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven, from his journal, in 1814
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The
Heart is a thousand-stringed instrument. . . that can only be tuned
with Love.
-Rumi |
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Song
of the Humpbacked Flute Player
Kitana-po,
ki-tana-po, ki-tana-po,
ki-tana-PO!
Ai-na,
ki-na-weh, ki-na-weh
Chi-li
li-cha, chi-li li-cha
Don-ka-va-ki,
mas-i-ki-va-ki
ki-ve,
ki-ve-na-meh
HOPET!
-Hopi
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The flute connects us not only to the earth,
but to each other and all relations, known and unknown.
-Matt
Farmer (Shooting Star)
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Music
is the sound of the soul freeing itself.
-Will Clipman (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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If you
listen closely, you can hear the land and ancient voices.
-Gary Stroutsos
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My idea
is that there is music in the air,
music all around us;
the world is full of it,
and you simply take as much as you require.
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Music,
once heard, wanders like a spirit through the heart and mind.
-Call of the Flute (1988)
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When
we make music, there is a co-creation,
an interaction between the musician and the hidden wind
that blows through everything.
-Dr. Lane Arye (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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So much
has changed, but love like the wind is still here.
-Bryan Akipa
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The
music simply runs through me: my body and my instrument are
merely vessels through which the music travels.
-Snake Davis (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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Unknowingly,
we plow the dust of stars,
blown
about us by the wind,
and drink
the universe in a glass of rain.
-Ihab Hassan
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All
things hum in a chorus of spiritual song.
Together all those notes make the Song of Existence.
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Ring the
bells that you can ring
Forget
your perfect offering
There's a
crack in everything
That's
how light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen,
"Anthem"
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Music
is a prayer. It is a prophecy for people who hear with their hearts...
Our music is spirit. A voice from the wind.
-Atsiaktonkie (Akwesasne Mohawk) (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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Hope is
the thing with feathers
That
perches in the soul,
And sings
the tune without the words,
And never
stops at all.
-Emily Dickinson
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Whether
we are creators or listeners of music, music provides a private
sanctuary for peace and personal reflection.
-Catherine Duc (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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glory to
the Musician whose Melody
erases
everything that burdens the heaert
the One
whose breath blowing in the flute
releases
us from all that burdens our mind
-Nureddin Abdorrahman Ibn-e Ahmad Jami
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With
music you can feel everything... through your soul to get to the
highest levels of spirituality.
-Xavier Quijas Yxayotl (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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after it
had been nourished by the waters of ancient rains
the reed
raised its head
it beheld
itself and saw that it was encased in a robe of cane
next it
beheld the mud out of which it had appeared
and knew
then that it was tied by many knots to where it had
taken
birth
O Friend
the reed
moaned
lend me a
hand
so I may
move away from this mud
time
passed and when it was right the Flute Player appeared
He
removed the many layers of cane and undid the reed's
many knots
the reed
was now smooth outside and empty inside
He then
put the reed to his lips and finding it empty of itself
breathed
in the selfless reed all his secrets in the form of
melodies
the reed
declared then that it was no more
and it
was right for now it was a flute
his breath is in me and my voice is his tune,
the reed
announced humbly
I am him and He is me though to the ignorant
this be
blasphemy
-Nureddin Abdorrahman Ibn-e Ahmad Jami
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Music
is spirituality. Music becomes sacred if you practice or perform with
dedication, devotion, and love.
-Prem Joshua (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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Within
each of us is a loving
magical,
powerful being
a Real
Self.
Music,
friend that it is,
cocoons
us from our worries,
enabling
that hidden self
to emerge.
-Peter Kater
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We
exist in a universe that consists entirely of energy. Einstein
proved this. Frequency defines it. Music expresses it.
-Sharry
Edwards (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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The space
can be a musical collaborator--a partner.
-Paul Horn
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Music
has its own realm, and its own reality.
-David S. Ware (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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Taiowa is
the breath;
humankind,
the mouthpiece
to carry
the sounds of creation to
the far
reaches of eternity.
-Hopi Song of Creation
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spiritual you can transform the music into a spiritual song.
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The object of art is expression.
The essence of expression is imagination.
The control of imagination is form.
The "medium" for all three is technique.
-H. Witherspoon
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Music
is the language of the soul. It transcends politics,
race, nationality, and is a way of recording history
that all people can understand.
-David Amram (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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You are
the notes, and we are the flute.
We are
the mountain, you are the sounds
coming down.
We are
the pawns and kings and rooks
you set
out on a board: we win or we lose.
We are
lions rolling and unrolling on flags.
Your
invisible wind carries us through the
world.
-Jelalluddin Rumi
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Carried
away on wings of song, we may come to actually experience spiritual
concepts like ecstasy, devotion, love, reverence, and peace.
-Robert Gass (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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A Native
Psalm
(Among
the Cherokee, it was said that when one had captivated another's heart
that they "walked in their soul." Among many Native American
Tribes, when a young man began the courting process, he would fashion a
courtship or love flute. Sitting outside the woman's lodge, he
would play love songs for her. The role of the blanket among
Northern Plains tribes of denoting relationship is
multi-faceted. In a public declaration of love, a young woman
would put a blanket over her shoulders and hold it open for a young
man. Together, they would walk through the village with the same
blanket over their shoulders. It was a public display of
commitment.
Native
people often adopted others from within and outside their tribal
structure. Once recognized, the adopted person had the same
social status as a birth-child or partner. Such an event was
often celebrated with feasting and dance.)
"Creator,
You have
covered the Earth with grasses.
Cover me
with Your presence.
Flood
over my spirit like a rain,
until I
stand, wet
because
of You.
Walk
through my soul,
so Your
steps are as familiar
as the
rhythm of my heart.
Make from
the branches of my life,
a
love-flute.
Play me.
Blow your
breath through me,
and I
will play your love song.
You have
held your blanket open for me,
and
welcomed me inside.
Cover me.
Wrap and
envelop me,
and I
will dance
the dance
of the adopted one."
-Ray Buckley
Lakota/Tlingit
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Music,
like spirit, is invisible. Yet it moves us to sing, dance, laugh, cry,
even march to war, to heal, and pray.
-David Lanz (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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All
creation sang its own song, and in doing so brought itself into being.
-Unknown
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[Music]
brings us into our private inner experience while at the same time
connecting us to our fellow human beings.
-Dr.
Kenneth Aigen (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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Peace
at last. . . When my body lies without a song, my spirit and the
eagles will soar together.
-Unknown |
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I am
music, most ancient of the arts.
I am more than ancient; I am eternal, I am spirit.
-Don Campbell (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"When you
begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever after you
have finished. It comes from your impulse to sing, from your mind
and heart, all the way back to the beginning of time. It goes
into thin air, into walls, patient trees, open sky, molecules, heat,
radiation, and on into vibrations there aren't names for. Part of
it does, anyway. The rest of it goes into the hearts and minds of
others. Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around."
-W.
A. Mathieu
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Transcendent Musical Experiences melt the heart, opening the
way to the soul.
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"If you
can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance."
-Zimbabwean
Saying
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The
spirit of music enchants us with its haunting melody, its perfectly
blended notes, the hidden weavings of its sacred geometry.
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"Every
soul is a melody which needs renewing."
-Stephane Mallarme
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We
are not merely the singer but also, at the same time, the song.
-Dr. Robin Kelly (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Humanity
is like Native American Flutes. They each have diversity and
similarity. Diversity in the sound of every individual flute and
diversity in every individual makes each unique. It is our
similarities that can bring us together. Listen carefully and
understand."
-Patrick Nielander
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Music has the capacity to inject life within us. It is oxygen
for the body, mind, and spirit. Music is the voice of life.
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"Time is
wanted for this,
but there
will come a day
when
music and its philosophy
will
become the religion of
humanity."
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sound
is the manifestation of vibration; the bridge that connects the seen
and the unseen worlds... spirituality is an integral and inseparable
part of music.
-Joy Gardner (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Hey, it
just hit me that those who say they can't read music are wrong!
The best music will always come from our deep center, and that music is
read with the 'eyes' of the heart. It just takes a little
'listening' to be able to 'read' that music."
-Bob West
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Music is
play... Playing and listening to music is its own reward.
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"Improvisation,
it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no
one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good
form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are
people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they
are thinking only of their god."
-Stephane Grappelli
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[Music] is invisible, it does not depend
on the given world for its inspiration,
it appeals to the mind, the heart, the body, and the imagination.
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"The soul
should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
-Emily Dickinson
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Music
is the soundtrack for the journey of
life.
-Chris
Mancini (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Your
intention is part of your music and never leaves it. It came from
somewhere and goes somewhere. It is connected directly to your
listeners and indirectly to everyone else. When the song is over,
your intention keeps going."
-W. A. Mathieu
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Life
is a journey, and I believe music is something that will carry each of
us throughout the various seasons of life: highs, lows, and
everything in between.
-Ginny McCabe (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"There is
a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated
through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all
time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will
never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
-Martha Graham
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Music and
musicians can… change the world and make it a better place by planting
emotional seeds that burst from the heart and blossom in the soul.
-Dr. Don Cusic (www.xtrememusic.org)
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"To the
rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work
backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises.
This is not because the steps which connect the two have been omitted
but because those steps are taken by the unconscious."
-Frances Wickes
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[Music]
is in everything, and of everything.
We must only tune our ears, to hear.
-Kate Mucci (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by
the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind
plays with the objects it loves."
-Carl Jung
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E=MC2
is energy equals music times consciousness squared.
-Nick Page (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Inspiration
may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness--I
wouldn't know. But I am sure that it is the antithesis of
self-consciousness."
-Aaron Copland
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Music
is an enigma. It beckons and calls;
it engulfs and fulfills, but it always leads on.
-Dr. Helen Bonny (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Dancing
is not getting up painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the
wind.
Dancing
is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces, and
giving up your soul.
Dance
where you can break yourself to pieces and totally abandon your worldly
passions.
Real men
dance and whirl on the battlefield; they dance in their own blood.
When they
give themselves up, they clap their hands;
When they
leave behind the imperfections of the self, they dance.
Their
minstrels play music from within; and whole oceans of passion foam on
the creast of the waves."
-Jallaludin Rumi
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Music
can tell stories that otherwise go untold.
-Dr. Paul Austerlitz (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"I am
always between two currents of thought: first the material
difficulties, turning round and round and round to make a living; and
second, the study of color. I am always hoping to make a
discovery here, to express the feelings of two lovers by a marriage of
two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the
mysterious vibrations of kindred tones. To express the thought
behind a brow by the radiance of a bright tone against a somber
background. To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul
by a sunset glow."
-Vincent Van Gogh
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I
believe that a lifetime of involvement in music, by listening,
creating, recreating, moving and dancing, strengthens our relationship
with our Creator and with the world in which we live.
-Joseph Pinson (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"The very
act of putting my work on paper, of, as we say, kneading the dough, is
for me inseparable from the pleasure of creation. So far as I am
concerned, I cannot separate the spirital effort from the psychological
and physical effort; they confront me at the same level and do not
present a hierarchy."
-Igor Stravinsky
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Without
craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
-Johannes Brahms
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When
I’m creating music I’m in a different zone, very calm and deeply
content and in touch with other parts of my being.
-Afterlife (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Do not
fear mistakes. There are none."
-Miles Davis
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Music
is a well into which we can easily and frequently dip, for balancing
all of our doing with being.
-Dr. Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D. (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Music,
the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the
picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our
Beloved that we love music."
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Music
is vibrational medicine, an antipsychotic which has been created,
played, and sung in order to uplift or balance people’s feelings in
every area of the world.
-Dr. Masaru Emoto (www.xtrememusic.org)
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"It don't
mean a thing
if it ain't got that swing."
-Duke Ellington
Irving
Mills
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Music
transcends all languages and barriers and is the most beautiful
communicative skill one can have.
-Ravi Shankar (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"We shall
not cease from exploration,
And the
end of all our exploring
Will be
to arrive where we started
And know
the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot
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Music
is a readily accessible pathway to finding one’s own spirituality.
-Dr. Melvyn Willin (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"Play.
Listen
and Play.
Play,
Play, Play.
Listen
and Play.
Play,
Play, Play, Watch, Write.
Listen
and Play and Write.
Play,
Play, Play, Play.
Forget
all you've learned up to now,
And just
play."
-R. Carlos
Nakai, March, 1999
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Music
is a universal language without words by which all beings can
communicate and understand each other's deepest essence.
-Marilyn Crispell (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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"God
gives us each a song. That's how we know who we are. Our
songs tell us who we are."
-Charlie Knight
Ute
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Music
is food, drink, sister, and brother to me,
and will be until I die.
-Joel McIver (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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In my
music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's
difficult is because I'm changing all the time."
-Charles Mingus
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I
have come to realize that the deeper music, for humans, is BETWEEN the
notes, that is, it represents THE JOURNEY.
-Joel Andrews (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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TO MUSIC
Music:
breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence
of paintings. You language where all
language
ends. You time
standing
vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Feelings
for whom? O you the transformation
of
feelings into what? - : into audible landscape.
You
stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out
of us. The deepest space in us,
which,
rising above us, forces its way out, -
holy
departure:
when the
innermost point in us stands
outside,
as the most practiced distance, as the other
side of
the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer
habitable.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
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Music is part of that bridge between matter, energy, and
spirit.
-Sule Greg Wilson (www.xtrememusic.org) |
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