Ceremony Quote by Ingrid Michaelson

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

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss,…

— Jerry Garcia

Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.

— Goa Gil

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.

— Miller Williams

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a…

— Daniel Levitin

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine.…

— Joan Osborne

Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon.…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

— Scott Cunningham

The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All…

— Mirah

Music is part of being human.

— Anonymous

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement,…

— Joseph Campbell

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero