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Happy Solstice from Musical Reflections

In two days, we will experience the solstice. (Winter in the northern hemisphere; summer in the southern hemisphere.) It always feels like [...]

Happy Solstice from Musical ReflectionsTami Briggs2023-12-19T12:23:30-06:00

Holiday Shopping

Are you wanting some holiday gift ideas that are different than your usual gift card on Amazon? We love making the following [...]

Holiday ShoppingTami Briggs2022-11-01T08:53:21-05:00

Time for Holiday Ordering

I know we say this every year, but it has been a fast year!! Even with all the issues around CoVid and [...]

Time for Holiday OrderingTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:06-06:00

Sound Equipment Investment

When CoVid transformed the world to Zoom, I disliked the sound of my harp on this digital platform. So, I invested in [...]

Sound Equipment InvestmentTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:07-06:00

Every musician’s home now has sound equipment!

When the pandemic “hit,” many musicians’ businesses were turned upside down. It took some time to figure out if and how we [...]

Every musician’s home now has sound equipment!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:11-06:00

More Thoughts on Zoom…

In the last blog post, I discussed using Zoom for presentations/performances. And frankly, my somewhat negative experiences using it for those purposes. [...]

More Thoughts on Zoom…Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:13-06:00

Harp on Zoom!

Everyone’s on Zoom … I am, too! And here’s “my take” on it. After doing numerous live events over the past 21+ [...]

Harp on Zoom!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:13-06:00

Teaching Harp Therapy Lessons

I posted about harp therapy lessons a couple months ago. After playing at the hospital and hospice bedside for the past 24 [...]

Teaching Harp Therapy LessonsTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:14-06:00

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“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“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

“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 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

“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

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

Holger Kalweit

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“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

“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

“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

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

Charles Kingsley

“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 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 has been called the speech of angels.”

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