Music and life are one indivisible breath,
expressing everything we know and feel,
from agony to love, from despair to hope.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Renoir
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There is music in the air,
music all around us;
the world is full of it and you simply
take as much of it as you require.
Edward Elgar
Edgar Degas
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If music be the food of love, play on...
William Shakespeare
Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Francois Boucher
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Francois Boucher
Welcome back everyone. I am very glad to be back here. I hope that you all had a nice vacation.
Thank you for the post Inda.
Beautiful music is a great joy to me; it is the sound of the angels.
sincerely,
Gisele
Thank you for the post Inda.
Beautiful music is a great joy to me; it is the sound of the angels.
sincerely,
Gisele
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
Lord Byron
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
Lord Byron
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thank you girls for your music quotes and images.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski
Section from the Unicorn tapestries
Cluny museum, Paris
EVERYTHING IS MUSIC ( Rumi)
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
It doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
Of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
From a slow and powerful root
That we can't see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
And let the spirits fly in and out.
(translation by Coleman Barks)
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski
Section from the Unicorn tapestries
Cluny museum, Paris
EVERYTHING IS MUSIC ( Rumi)
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
It doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
Of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
From a slow and powerful root
That we can't see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
And let the spirits fly in and out.
(translation by Coleman Barks)
Thank you for resounding such a harmonious topic dearestestestest Inda!
quote:Originally posted by dear Margherita here:
You are ...
You are my Gregorian chant
when the trees are our cathedral.
You are my Om sound,
when we perform
our very own cosmic dance.
Occasionally, you are my Blues,
when we cross the valleys
of universal sadness.
Mostly, you are my unique
tune of love that stirs my
every fiber to move
through life with grace.
You are my string of existence
that holds every sound
ever emitted in the process
of creation.
You are the divine voice
that resonates within my soul,
hence this irresistible desire
to get under your skin,
to dive into the essence of you.
You are the buzzing
of our Spring meadow
where we inhale
the pure breeze of renovation
that allows us to live in love
and to ascend upon
planes of peace and healing
of whatever dissonance
crept imperceptibly
into our minds.
Now come and sing with me,
over and over again,
our unique tune of harmony.
Then press your lips on mine
and listen to the echoes
roaming through infinity.
Thank you Teo for your wonderful reply.
Brought from afar,
adopted as our own,
the 'ukulele now carries
the song of the islands
around the world.
Hawaiian Inspiration
by Jessica Lani Rich
The late Nona Beamer
Brought from afar,
adopted as our own,
the 'ukulele now carries
the song of the islands
around the world.
Hawaiian Inspiration
by Jessica Lani Rich
The late Nona Beamer
“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
Japanese saying
Love,
yoko
Japanese saying
Love,
yoko
Thank you yoko,
and welcome back.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
and welcome back.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Plato
I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement.
The light of thy music illuminates the world. The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on.
My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly struggles for a voice. I would speak, but speech breaks not into song, and I cry out baffled. Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
~Rabindranath Tagore
The light of thy music illuminates the world. The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on.
My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly struggles for a voice. I would speak, but speech breaks not into song, and I cry out baffled. Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
~Rabindranath Tagore
Music makes pictures and often tells stories,
All of it magic and all of it true.
And all of the pictures and all of the stories,
And all of the magic, the music is you.
John Denver
All of it magic and all of it true.
And all of the pictures and all of the stories,
And all of the magic, the music is you.
John Denver
“Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.”
Japanese
Japanese
quote:Originally posted by dear Inda:
let us keep enjoying the music.
Love,
Vicky
Love,
Vicky
“Music uplifts the soul to realms above. The ashes glow, the latent fires increase. We listen and are fed with joy and peace.”
Rumi
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I love your image Vicky.
Rumi
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I love your image Vicky.
If this world would burn up,
hidden harps will still play here.
-Rumi
hidden harps will still play here.
-Rumi
Thank you for the joy of music. Birds give us some lovely songs as well. I enjoy their singing as I walk in the morning.
Time to play some Christmas music.
This is a really lovely musical post.
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron
Listening a favorite song in a day will make you feel fresh and energetic. I always listen music in morning and evening using my soundpeats Q12 bluetooth headphone on high bass. This makes me feel so relax and help me to concentrate in my work.
“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven
