Culture Quote by Ravi Shankar Download Open image “In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.” — Ravi Shankar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Instruments Music Musical Musical instruments Respect
I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to… — Paul Washer 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
We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha,… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time;… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
