Ancestor Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of a people are found in its songs.

— George Jellinek

...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day…

— Corinne Heline

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

— Daniel Barenboim

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that…

— Plato

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and…

— Stanley Crouch

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were…

— Paul Simon

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant,…

— James Russell Lowell

Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The…

— Rosy Cole

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

— Alison Croggon

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship…

— George Eliot