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Music Streaming

I recently saw a Facebook post with a photo of “payments” from Spotify. I put quotes around “payments” because the picture was [...]

Music StreamingTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:22-06:00

Always Protected

I had an interesting thing happen at one of my Christmas gigs this past December. It was a very cold night and [...]

Always ProtectedTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:22-06:00

Changing the World!

The Israelian singer/songwriter, David Broza, said, “I don’t think I’m going to change the world; I’m going to change my world and [...]

Changing the World!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:22-06:00

Celebrating My Parents’ 60th Anniversary

My parents celebrated 60 years of love and wedded bliss on February 16, and my sister and I will be honoring them [...]

Celebrating My Parents’ 60th AnniversaryTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

Heartache and Healing

I recently found this quote (that someone else found on an Irish headstone): “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love [...]

Heartache and HealingTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

A Beautiful Destination

A couple months ago, I spoke to the new International Harp Therapy students. In preparation for our call, the host asked me [...]

A Beautiful DestinationTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

Your Cell Phone Chime

Do you have a cell phone? Do you have it set so that it chimes at you every time you get an [...]

Your Cell Phone ChimeTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

Darkness vs. Hope

As many of you know, “darkness” kinda goes along with my harp work – many times, I am experiencing people at their [...]

Darkness vs. HopeTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

Standing Ovation!

I keynoted at the Healing Beyond Borders’ (HBB) international conference in August 2017. Their conference theme was “The Next Harmonic.” When I [...]

Standing Ovation!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:23-06:00

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

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“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

“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

“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.”

Charles Kingsley

“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

“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 the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

“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

“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

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

Holger Kalweit

“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 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

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

“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