Peaceful | Musical Reflections

Need Stocking Stuffer Gifts?

Now is the time to finish your last-minute gift shopping! Sharing downloads with your family and/or friends or giving CDs/books can be [...]

Need Stocking Stuffer Gifts?Tami Briggs2023-12-05T10:16:55-06:00

Playing the harp at the hospital and hospice bedside

One of my passions is to play the harp at the hospital and hospice bedside. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be [...]

Playing the harp at the hospital and hospice bedsideTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:18-06:00

When Violence Strikes – Got Music? (Part II)

As soon as I posted the last blog about music and violence, I realized I had more to say about this important [...]

When Violence Strikes – Got Music? (Part II)Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

The Gift of Christmas Peace

It is now a tradition to post our “The Gift of Christmas Peace” video the day after Thanksgiving. (Isn’t this when the [...]

The Gift of Christmas PeaceTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:24-06:00

Well-Being and the Harp – Part II

Our emotions are the next area of well-being that we want to “discuss” as it relates to the harp. We are emotional [...]

Well-Being and the Harp – Part IITami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:25-06:00

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“Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced. It has been demonstrated clinically that music adds to our general health and well-being.”

John Diamond

“Music is God’s best gift to [humans], the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven.”

Charles W. Landon

“The human being is essentially sound, vibrations, and melody.…”

Holger Kalweit

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

Charles Kingsley

“Through vibration, harmony, tone, melody and meaning, music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“The more we cultivate great music in our lives, the greater will be our attunement to unlimited sources of the Creator’s power and direction.”

Hal A. Lingerman

“Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Music is an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“David took a harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”

1 Samuel 16:23

“Music speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.”

“Art is more than important—it is central to how we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, and how we present ourselves to each other.”

Bill Ivey

“I am Music….Even before life began upon this earth, I was here—in the winds and the waves….And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle, and most powerful medium for the expression of Man’s emotions….For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand….I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace. I comfort the lonely. I am a necessary luxury to all men.”

Anonymous

“…the time is fast approaching when Man will select his music with the same intelligent care and knowledge he now uses to select his food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individual and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated.”

Corinne Helene

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”

Charlie Parker

“Seek out a wise player on a harp: and it shall come to pass…that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well.”

I Samuel 16:16