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Peace Meditations

Besides launching United Nations of Harpists (previous post), I have been actively hosting and facilitating Peace Meditations for the past six months. [...]

Peace MeditationsTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:10-06:00

United Nations of Harpists

I’m so excited to announce that over the past winter, I launched a new organization called United Nations of Harpists. It is [...]

United Nations of HarpistsTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:10-06:00

A Beautiful Gift!

When United Nations of Harpists launched in February 2021, we were a Zoom gathering of 28 harpists from eight countries + one [...]

A Beautiful Gift!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:11-06:00

Harp Music & Pets!

A few days after the George Floyd murder, I was practicing my harp when my phone rang. It was my dear friends [...]

Harp Music & Pets!Tami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:11-06:00

Musical Reflections wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!

The U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving is coming soon! It is one of our favorite holidays. How about you? It is less stressful [...]

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

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

Virtual Harp Therapy

In the International Harp Therapy Program (IHTP) Facebook group, we have been discussing if harp therapy is effective virtually. I had a [...]

Virtual Harp TherapyTami Briggs2022-01-12T20:06:13-06:00

Blessings of CoVid-19

I was recently on a Zoom call and someone asked the question, "What are the blessings you've received from the coronavirus?" Honestly, [...]

Blessings of CoVid-19Tami 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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“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 the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“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

“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 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 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

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“…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

“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 an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“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 has been called the speech of angels.”

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

Barbara Marx Hubbard