Music speaks louder than words
It was Friedrich Nietzsche who wrote that ‘without music, life would be a mistake’. Leo Tolstoy called music the ‘shorthand of emotion’. Beethoven thought it was a ‘mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life’ and Missy Elliott was content to declare that it must necessarily ‘be your escape’. To me all these definitions sound...
Watching music isn’t a part of my beat theory
I don’t need binoculars to listen to the sort of music that makes the heart go dib-dabba-dab-dab or wishy-washy-mishy-mashy or something just as romantic and real as this. What I mean is that I would not want to be too far away from the singer or the musician and obviously music that resonates with our...
Sounds of Freedom
Sounds of Freedom These are rhymes that I tweeted with this hashtag: #SoundsOfFreedom 140 character tweets in rhymes on our relationship with music… [1] The ears can see and also read The tree of truth in a musical seed! [2] Music takes you on a trip Full of a joyous drip! [3] Dec-i-bel dis-ci-pline is...
A life that is song-ready
We all love a life full of music and songs… particularly if we are able to listen what we want to at a place of our choice and at a time of our choosing. It isn’t always possible to carry our massive music systems with us everywhere – but we’re lucky to be in an...
I am within me and everywhere
In a glance that doesn’t even brush past me Travelling all charged up And at a speed that only dreams can dream of A bit in a byte and a byte in a bit Going from one end of a thought to the other And not coming any nearer to the truth A pixel in...
Dinner with God
Dinner with God haunt fantasy squeeze through time mate life with soul clutch delicious promises hand wine some music then fly out to find joy! Poem by Arvind Passey 23 August 2010
The music of success
Education is the music of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. This music also fills the infinite between two souls. It is the rhythm and the notes of passionate education that award us with the music of success. So the connection between music and achievement is not to be...
