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Happy Winter Solstice

Do you consider the equinoxes and solstices auspicious days? In the northern hemisphere, December 21st is the darkest day of least light. [...]

Happy Winter SolsticeTami Briggs2025-12-21T10:51:03-06:00

Holiday Ordering Last Call

Holiday gift shopping is wrapping up and we are sending a frieindly reminder. We are here to help with: Harp CDs and [...]

Holiday Ordering Last CallTami Briggs2025-12-09T11:23:08-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving from Musical Reflections!

Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday! Is it yours too? A special time of thanksgiving and gratitude, we reflect on the year 2025 [...]

Happy Thanksgiving from Musical Reflections!Tami Briggs2025-11-25T09:15:53-06:00

It’s Time to Order for the Holidays

This has been a fast year, hasn’t it?! And since it’s already November, it is time to start planning for the upcoming [...]

It’s Time to Order for the HolidaysTami Briggs2025-11-11T09:51:01-06:00

Summer Opening

In Minnesota, this past weekend is called the Memorial Day holiday. It is really the opening of summer! Many people go to [...]

Summer OpeningTami Briggs2025-05-27T12:39:36-05:00

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

Happy Holidays from Musical Reflections

On November 23rd, we will celebrate Thanksgiving (a U.S. holiday). The next day, our culture “flips” into holiday preparation with a vengeance! [...]

Happy Holidays from Musical ReflectionsTami Briggs2023-11-21T12:46:33-06:00

Easing into the Holidays

As we move closer to the holidays, we hope you are able to find moments of peace to actually enjoy the celebrations. [...]

Easing into the HolidaysTami Briggs2022-12-13T10:47:37-06:00

Auspicious Day?!

As we write 12/21/21, we wonder if this is an auspicious day?! It is the solstice, too, and depending on the hemisphere [...]

Auspicious Day?!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:05-06:00

Musical Reflections wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!

Our favorite holiday arrives on Thursday (Thanksgiving). Is it your favorite, as well?! It is a special time of gratitude, to remember [...]

Musical Reflections wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:06-06:00

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“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

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

Charlie Parker

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

Charles Kingsley

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

Holger Kalweit

“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

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

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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