The Power of Music: August 2011

My Purpose

My Purpose

The purpose of this blog is to help people understand that music can be more then just entertainment, and what those things are. I want be able to help people with this blog. I don't know everything about music, I am still studying it, however, I will share what I have found. I hope you will be enlighted and edified by what I have to share. I worry that some people might turn a deaf ear to my blog if they read something on this blog that they don't agree with. I respect your beliefs. I don't agree with everything I read either. But I know you can find something that can help and interest you, if you just keep reading.

"Quotes Worth Mentioning"

QUOTES WORTH MENTIONING

When asked where his inspiration came from, Johannes Brahms said, "I immediately feel vibrations that thrills my whole being. These are the Spirit illuminating the soul power within, and in this exalted state, I see clearly what is obscure in my ordinary moods: Then I feel capable of drawing inspiration from above, as Beethoven ... Straighway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. Measure by measure, the finished product is revealed to me when I am in those rare, inspired moods." "The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspiration is the same power that enabled Jesus to work his miracles. It is the same power that created our earth and the whole universe"
("Talks with Great Composers", Arthur M. Abell)

"Give me power over he who shapes the music of a nation, and I care not for who shapes it laws"
Napolian Bonaparte

“Intellectual enlightenment consists of instruction in the arts, numbers, history, speech, and government. Music consummates a man’s life, giving his rituals meaning. Music has a trensforming effect on its listeners, and should be the first principle of government.” -The Teachings of Confucius.

I quote some remarks between,Gene R. Cook, and Mik Jagger made a few years ago:
Cook: "I have the opportunity to be with a lot of young people. Many say your music does not affect them adversely in any way. Others say it effects them in a very bad way. What is your opinion? What is your impact?”
Jagger "Our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex. It's not my fault what they do. It's up to them. I'm just making a lot of money.”
Cook: He was in Mexico making a profane and pornographic music video because the cost is 1/3 there. In addition it is easier to produce such videos there at the moment. He explained that though such videos with explicit sexual behavior is illegal on US national television, it soon will be, and they want to have the videos ready. Now not only audio pornography can be portrayed, but they can view it as well. He was making more money this way."
Jagger:“It doesn't matter what you do in life, there are no rules. There is no god. You can take whatever you want. It doesn't matter."

"To encourage literature and the arts is the duty which every good citizen owns to his country."
George Washington

"Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it."
Aristotle

(more qoutes to come)

Monday, August 29, 2011

Update on my progress

Like I have promised, I will update you on my progress of my listing to classical music again. Well I am doing much better. I can think and functions more and more clearly. So that is all I have to say for this post, however, I am learing some new things that I am still studying and looking at and hope to have some new data to be able to post on my blog. This data that I am working on is very interesting, I personlly am estactic about my new findings! I hope to post soon.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Please Share Your Thoughts

I haven't writen posts for a while before today. I hope that those people that read my blog will leave comments about musical experiances or questions they have so others may be benefited by there stories and questions, If you have questions I will try to answer them, and if I can't answer them, then I will find where the answer can be found. If you have any information that you would like to share, feel free to comment on post or write to me contact.blog.thepowerofmusic@gmail.com the more people that share beneficial information the more people that can be helped. If you send me something by email i will need your permision to post it on my blog, or parts of the info you share with me. So if you have some info that you feel comfortable to share, I and possibly other would much appreciate it. You can leave yourself anonymous if you would like.

Music In My Life

I recently havn't had much of an oppertunity to listen to classical and barouqe music, which I usually listen to for hours every day. One of the reasons I listen to classical music for hours a day is because I have some problems that baqrouqe and classical music help me with greatly. There were times when I couldn't keep a train of thought and barly remember things that were just said to me because of certain conditions that I have. I would have to just lye down and do nothing because thats about all I could do, durring that time Bach's music seemed to be the most help and after a little bit, I could function more normally. But all those problems just about went away when I started to listen to that music for hours a day. Now that I haven't listened to that music for a couple of weeks now, I noticed a major change, I am almost back to where I was before that musicbecame such a large part of my life. However, I am listening to music again. I will update this blog on my progress.

I Am Music

Servant and Master am I; Servant of those dead and Master of those living. Through me, spirits of immortals speak the message that makes the world weep and laugh, and wonder and worship. I tell the story of love, the story of hate, the story that saves, and the story that damns. I am the incense upon which prayers float to Heaven. I am the smoke which palls over the field of battle where men are dying with me on their lips. I am close to the marriage altar, and when the graves open, I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home, I rescue the soul from the depths, I open the lips of the lovers, and through the dead, whisper to the living. One I serve as I serve all, and the king I make my slave as easily as I subject his slave I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of
the fields, the crash of water on rock-ribbed shores I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the clatter of wheels on city streets. I know no brother, yet all men are my brothers: I am the father of the best that is in them, and they are the father of the best that is in me. I am the instrument of God. I AM MUSIC.