EVERY DAY DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BETTER. MIKE GRHICH
THERE ARE OLD PEOPLE who only think about the past but it’s not like that around here. You have to do things. There’s always a future even if it’s very small. BEATRICE MONTI DELLA CORTE (97)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827. SYMPHONIES 1-9.
MUSIC is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. MUSIC is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
I WISH YOU MUSIC to help with the burdens of life and to help you release your happiness to others.
WHAT I HAVE IN MY HEART AND SOUL — MUST FIND A WAY OUT. THAT’S THE REASON FOR MUSIC.
THE VIBRATIONS on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.
LIFE WOULD BE FLAT WITHOUT MUSIC. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
THEN let us all do what is right — strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us and never stop learning.
DON’T only practice your art but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
TO PLAY WITHOUT PASSION IS INEXCUSABLE!
AN ARTIST IS SOMEONE WHO HAS LEARNED TO TRUST IN HIMSELF.
MUSIC CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
ANYONE WHO TELLS A LIE has not a pure heart and cannot make a good soup.
I HAVE NEVER thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason I compose.
WE MORTALS with immortal minds are only born for sufferings & joys and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
HIDE YOUR SECRET EVEN FROM THE CLOSEST FRIEND; LEARN TO BE SILENT.
IN THE WORLD OF ART AS IN THE WHOLE OF CREATION FREEDOM AND PROGRESS ARE THE MAIN OBJECTIVE.
MUSIC is indeed the mediator between the spiritual & the sensual life.
APPLAUD my friends — the comedy is over . . . (on his death bed)
IT IS THE POWER OF MUSIC to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
MUSIC should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
MUSIC IS LIKE A DREAM. ONE THAT I CANNOT HEAR.
I HAVEN’T A SINGLE FRIEND; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him and I have no fear for my music — it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.
I KNOW OF NO MORE SACRED DUTY THAN TO REAR & EDUCATE A CHILD.
THE GUITAR IS AN ORCHESTRA IN ITSELF.
THE WORLD IS A KING and like a king desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
MEN are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
ONLY ART AND SCIENCE CAN RAISE MEN TO THE LEVEL OF GOD.
WHAT is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
EVERYTHING should be at once surprising and inevitable.
EKNATH EASWARAN 1910-1999–“God Makes the Rivers to Flow”.
A CALM MIND releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness and hatred into love.
THE SUFIS advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, ‘Are these words true?’ If so, we let them pass on; if not back they go. At the second gate we ask ‘Are they necessary?’ At the last gate we ask ‘Are they Kind?’
MEDITATION is warm-up exercise for the mind so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.
PATIENCE can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
THERE are three kinds of violence: one through our deeds; two through our words; and three through our thoughts. . . . The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts and that is why training the mind is so important.
WHEN we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.
DO NOT FEED YOUR EGO and your problem with your attention.. . . . slowly, surely the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see through it — to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
WE HAVE to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.
HAVING COME TO REALIZE in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies — in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds.
EVERY ANGRY THOUGHT makes it a little easier to get angry the next time & a little more likely.
IN THE SPIRITUAL LORE OF INDIA there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: ‘Give.’ Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy snd security.