Chaos Quote by Ben Okri Download Open image “When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.” — Ben Okri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaos Chiefs Deities Eras Instruments Music Music is Music making
There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts. — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
“Music creates order out of chaos; for rythem imposes unianimity upon the divergent, melody imposes contuniuty upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In the ring, there's not a lot of room for mistakes. You're in a place that is chaos, that is on fire. That ring… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga)… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image