Action Quote by Benjamin Hoff

“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other words, preoccupies…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The Confucians paid a great deal attention to ritual, highlighting the ones that expressed the sorts of affective attitudes one wants to cultivate, engaging…

— David Wong

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only…

— Plutarch

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

— George Crumb

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

— Igor Stravinsky

For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the…

— Ingrid Michaelson

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Music is a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.”

— Richard Powers

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing,…

— E. O. Wilson

Music dictates culture, and culture dictates music; they go hand in hand.

— Mya

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate…

— Robert Genn