A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. —Madame de Stael More about this quote Tags: life religion struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant. —Fred Alan Wolf More about this quote Tags: change universe transformation sound healing chanting shamanism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Jews and blacks come from the same history. . . . We've just expressed our suffering differently as people. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complain; we just never thought of putting it to music. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Tags: history suffering complaining jewishness blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: history heart sorrow tears unhappiness slavery songs relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. —Henry Giles More about this quote Tags: memory music songs sermons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets. —Sylvia Townsend Warner More about this quote Tags: children music singing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: music pain seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Country music is three chords and the truth. —Harlan Howard More about this quote Tags: truth music country music chords Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song. —John Mellencamp More about this quote Tags: music heart head songs rock and roll legs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings. —Robert Benchley More about this quote Tags: music singing opera Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance. —Thomas Cahill More about this quote Tags: war history pain grace catastrophe outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling? —Margaret Gatty More about this quote Tags: love time fighting quarreling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: life acceptance peace enjoyment conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. —Orson Welles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the dead have seen the end of war. —Plato More about this quote Tags: war death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email