Tami Briggs | Musical Reflections

About Tami Briggs

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far Tami Briggs has created 418 blog entries.

Manifest Your Heart’s Desires

Are you interested in trying a new way to manifest your heart's desires (other than what is already "out there")? I began [...]

Manifest Your Heart’s DesiresTami Briggs2024-09-10T09:40:07-05:00

Harp and Hand Bells

I recently played the harp for a dear friend’s funeral and had quite an experience with harp and hand bells! After I [...]

Harp and Hand BellsTami Briggs2024-08-27T12:25:08-05:00

Harp Music for Guided Meditations

I have been reflecting on harp music for guided meditations, specifically how I got started playing the harp for these special meditations. [...]

Harp Music for Guided MeditationsTami Briggs2024-08-13T11:00:44-05:00

Harp Improvisation Lessons

One of my harp therapy students recently asked me to explain how I improv on the harp. It was a great exercise [...]

Harp Improvisation LessonsTami Briggs2024-07-30T11:00:44-05:00

More on Harp Strings

I want to share a bit more about my recent harp string break. In the previous blog post, I mentioned it sounds [...]

More on Harp StringsTami Briggs2024-07-16T10:05:22-05:00

Harp Strings

My pedal harp arrived at my door in Minneapolis, MN from Loveland, CO in 1996. Shortly after it arrived, I noticed the [...]

Harp StringsTami Briggs2024-07-02T09:35:15-05:00

Friends and the Grief Journey

Now, when I play for hospital and hospice patients, I play my pedal harp on Zoom. I recently had a special experience [...]

Friends and the Grief JourneyTami Briggs2024-06-18T11:33:38-05:00

The Last Repair Shop – Oscar for Short Documentary

Did you see the Oscars in mid-March? There’s always a lot of focus on the dresses/costumes. The one that stood out to [...]

The Last Repair Shop – Oscar for Short DocumentaryTami Briggs2024-06-04T06:49:05-05:00

Minister of Women

In March, I attended the United Nations Commission on Status of Women (CSW 68). One of the many excellent presentations was “Acting [...]

Minister of WomenTami Briggs2024-05-21T10:00:43-05:00

An Excellent Read by David Brooks

My Rotary International club is starting a new book club. Our first book to read is by David Brooks. The title is [...]

An Excellent Read by David BrooksTami Briggs2024-05-07T09:50:42-05:00

12 Next

“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

“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

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

Holger Kalweit

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

Charles Kingsley

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

Hal A. Lingerman

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

Charlie Parker

“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

“…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

“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

“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

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

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

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“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.”

“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

“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 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