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Holding the Light for These Precarious Times

Tami Briggs2025-01-21T10:26:33-06:00January 21st, 2025|

Yesterday was the Inauguration of the U.S. President of the next four [...]

Musical Reflections wishes you a Happy New Year!

Tami Briggs2025-01-06T10:39:57-06:00January 6th, 2025|

The New Year is a wonderful holiday to start anew! We know [...]

Winter Solstice Meditation

Tami Briggs2024-12-17T12:02:23-06:00December 17th, 2024|

The day of least light in the northern hemisphere is coming up [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

Harp Improvisation Lessons

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

More on Harp Strings

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

Harp Strings

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

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 [...]

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

Charles Kingsley

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“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 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

“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

“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 an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“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 has been called the speech of angels.”

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

Charlie Parker

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

Holger Kalweit

“…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

“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

“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

“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