Quotes About Transcendence

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

For me, music begins where words end.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Music is the language of heaven.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Music is another planet.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.