"Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto."
Lope de Vega
"So powerful is the light of unity that
it can illuminate the whole earth."
Baha'u'llah
"Music is the language of the spirit.
It opens the secret of life,
Bringing peace, abolishing strife."
Kahlil Gibran
We must see that peace represents
a sweeter music, a cosmic melody...
Martin Luther King
“After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.”
Beethoven
My heart is all gratitude
To music,
For it keeps me all the time
In tune with my universal Self.
The outer music
Comes from an outer instrument.
The inner music
Comes from the heart.
The name of this inner music
Is oneness.
Music is the inner or universal language of God.
Soulful music immediately awakens and inspires our
hearts because it embodies the Absolute Supreme.
Light is the soul of music.
Music helps the spiritual seeker to go deep within to get the utmost satisfaction from life, from truth, from reality.
The spiritual life helps music to offer
the soul’s light to the world at large.
When we listen to soulful music our inner existence
climbs and enters into our true divinity.
If we can play or hear soulful music our meditation increases.
In the twinkling of an eye,
music can elevate our consciousness.
Each spiritual musician is consciously
spreading God’s Light on earth.
The music that touches the very depth of
our heart can elevate our consciousness.
Music can change our consciousness provided it is the music that comes from the heart and enters into the heart.
It is through music that the Divine in us gets
the opportunity to manifest itself here on earth.
It is only a matter of time before the heart responds to spiritual music, which embodies the beauty and
purity of music in its pristine form.
Each song has a soul.
The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.
God the Creator is the Supreme Musician and God the creation is the supreme Music.
Through music, God is offering the message of unity in multiplicity and also the message of multiplicity in unity.
God is dreaming at every moment through music.
His Dream is called the cosmic Reality, the universal Reality.
God is playing the supreme Music in and through us, His chosen instruments.
Be a pioneer
In God’s Music-World.
Your dedication-life
Can offer God-Music
To many receptive hearts.
Divine music
Serves the heart of mankind.
The higher worlds have a music that awakens us,
inspires us, illumines us, perfects us and fulfils us.
Each individual has his own music, each movement has its own music, each action has its own music, each time we breathe in and breathe out, there is music.
This music from the soul wants to express and fulfil itself through the heart.
Soulful music carries us into the Universal Consciousness and makes us feel that we are in tune with the highest, with the deepest, with the farthest.
If you can feel that it is some reality deep inside
your heart that is expressing itself, then you will
know that it is the soul’s music.
When you hear music, if it lifts your consciousness,
then you will know that it is spiritual music.
Musicians should give the world music that comes directly from the soul, music that will help humanity raise its consciousness.
Divine music, takes you back to God, the Supreme Musician.
The songs that will have the greatest influence are those that come directly from the soul and immediately are accepted by the aspiring heart, vital, mind and body.
When a soulful song is sung soulfully, then it will
definitely have the greatest influence on humanity.
Each individual who comes to listen to songs or to hear music comes to get something abiding—the lasting joy that inspires them to see and feel something in themselves that is absolutely new and unprecedented - unprecedented joy, unprecedented love.
If you play soulful music, then you have to enter
into the soulfulness of the music and also enter
into the soulfulness of the audience.
Music is the oneness-aspiration of humanity.
In soulful sound there is no ‘I’. It is all ‘we’.
Soulful music is produced by the Universal in us,
by the Eternal in us, by the Absolute in us.
If we can feel that it is some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
All those who are seekers of the infinite Truth
will naturally play soulful music.
Music has to play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music is the connecting link between the One and the many and between the many and the One.
Music will play a most important role in bringing about world oneness, for music embodies the Universal Heart, the oneness-heart. Music transcends the barriers of nations, nationalities and religions.
It is through music that the universal
feeling of oneness can be achieved.
If you have haunting music
In your mind
And a soulful song
In your heart,
Then easily you will be able
To reveal an unknown world of beauty
For the God-lovers.
If we really play soulful music, we will see that we are just an instrument, that somebody else is singing and playing in and through us, and that somebody is our Inner Pilot, the Supreme.
Real music, divine music, takes you back to God.
While playing a musical instrument, feel that music is the universal language, that music has and is the key to unlock the Heart-Door of the Supreme.
It is only music that has a free access to unlock the Heart-Door of the universal Heart of the Supreme.
Try to feel that now you are creating something for the world. You are giving to your instrument something of yourself—something really precious and luminous, something which is part and parcel of your own reality.
You can make your music full of supreme beauty if you can remember constantly that your music is only an extension of your inner consciousness.
Always feel that the divine within you has accepted music as an expression of its reality for your own perfection in life.
Feel or be aware of the divine within you, then you can bring to your music, through the expression of your life’s reality, the supreme beauty.
When you play music feel that you are the instrument and the Supreme is playing in and through you.
Music is a way to reach humanity
and bring spirituality to humanity.
Play music that inspires you, that comes from the very depth of your heart and illumines your consciousness.
When you play divine music, please feel that God is unveiling His own inner Music and fulfilling Himself in and through you.
Inner music is the mother tongue of humanity,
the language of the soul.
The role of music in the spiritual life is extremely important and significant. God is the Supreme Musician, and His entire creation is His divine Music. At every moment we can be His conscious instruments. And spiritual music itself is an instrument to show us our universal Reality.
Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness. We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day, but we can meditate, perhaps, for two hours a day. At other times we can play music or listen to music. When we play or hear soulful music, psychic music, immediately we are transported to a higher realm of consciousness. When we play music soulfully, we go high, higher, highest."
"Our inner music does not allow us to create disharmony. Music gives us the feeling of sweetness, tenderness and softness. The inner music always inspires us to do something good for humanity. Our inner music is a form of prayer and meditation."
“Music does bring people together.
It allows us to experience the same emotions.
People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.”
Anonymous
"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“Music is the harmonious voice of creation;
an echo of the invisible world.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“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
"Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
Ralpho Waldo Emerson
“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”
Anonymous
"Music expresses that which cannot be said
and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
"If music be the food of love, play on."
Shakespeare
“Music and rhythm find their way into
the secret places of the soul”
Plato
"A painter paints pictures on canvas.
But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach
"All deep things are song. It seems somehow
the very central essence of us, song;
as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!"
Thomas Carlyle
"Without music life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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
"He who sings scares away his woes."
Cervantes
"Music is what feelings sound like."
Author Unknown
"Musical compositions, it should be remembered,
do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums,
like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is
not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket."
Henri Rabaud
"Music is the poetry of the air."
Richter
"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."
Sydney Smith
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
William P. Merrill
"If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it."
Doménico Cieri Estrada
"Music is the mediator between
the spiritual and the sensual life."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"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
"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."
Edward Elgar
"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Play the music, not the instrument."
Author Unknown
"Music's the medicine of the mind."
John A. Logan
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."
Robert Browning
"Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel."
Buffy Sainte-Marie
"Music is an outburst of the soul."
Frederick Delius
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
Oscar Wilde
"Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It’s not much fun to look forward to hearing music or
to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment."
Sonnett Branche
"Music is what life sounds like."
Eric Olson
"Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate."
Arnold Bennett
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."
Robert G. Ingersoll
"Music is the literature of the heart;
it commences where speech ends."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies."
William Cowper
"When words leave off, music begins."
Heinrich Heine
"Truly to sing, that is a different breath."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy
"There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
Robert Browning
"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses
harmonies instead of oranges."
Benny Green
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!"
Artur Schnabel
"The pause is as important as the note."
Truman Fisher
"Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven."
Lawrence Duncan
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which
human nature cannot do without."
Confucius
"The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril."
Richard Baker
"Music is the medicine of the breaking heart."
Leigh Hunt
"Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies."
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens...if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly...to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?"
Charles Ives
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Music is love in search of a word."
Sidney Lanier
"It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense
of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible."
Victor de LaPrade
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle
music quotes
sri chinmoy quotes
Sri Chinmoy playing the veena at one of 777 free peace concerts he held worldwide. Around him are some of the other instruments he plays (wind, string and keyboard).
"If I cannot sing and dance in your revolution, then I don't want to be part of it."
Emma Goldman
"Musical traditions are kept alive by the paradoxical need for both openness and protection, the safety of strict forms and the life-giving freedom that comes from sponteneity and experimentation. It is a delicate balance which the greatest civilizations have always recognised."
Mark Kidel
"The goal of singing is that state where effortless action, the ease of balanced power and flowing connection carry us beyond opinion and judgement to the arrival of the unknown into life through performance. This is a long way from worry about doing it right or being obedient. It is about befriending; about giving up preconceived notions; about being surprised; about openness and connection. All we need is inside us. The issue is to be brave enough to let it out."
Howard Milner
"Music moves, heals and connects us to the eternal. Music, like nature, is made up of patterns which have an ordered interconnectivity between them. It is these harmonic patterns that hold the fabric of the universe together."
Ian Skelly
"Music teaches us vital lessons about the way harmony operates in the world...it puts us in touch with the eternal. The world is made of music, not matter."
Ian Skelly
