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“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.”

Way Certain Force Sound Effects Produce Letters Jew Rhythm Representatives Compelling Definite Sequence Mantras

Author:Sir John Woodroffe

“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.”

Whole Character Facts Body Form Sound Movement Produce Particular Elements Universal Accounts Function Harmony Rhythm Atoms Vibrations Celestial Celestial Bodies

Author:Pythagoras

“The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.”

Soul Body Causes Sound Effects Produce Wind Corruption Cease Organs Pipe Spoilt

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.”

World Light Seems Form Sound Produce Color Flames Spoken Word Intonation

Author:Johannes Itten

“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.”

Ifs Enough Truth Spirit Sound Air Produce Shapes Harmony Graves Bells Definite

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.”

Knows Should Writing Trying Hard Stories Seems Easy Sound Know How Produce Skills Sentences Mislead Trumpets Weird Things

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.”

Looks Stuff Sound Simple Produce Music Is Symbols

Author:Chuck Berry

“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Matter Sound Produce Shapes Unusual Architect Bricks Succession

Author:Constant Lambert

“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.”

Art Artist Sound Music Laughing Produce Tears Musician Performances Moved Listeners Torn

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.”

People Inspirational Helping Given Sound Music Talent Produce Musician Instruments Musical Tunes Magnificent Emanate Musical Instruments

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.”

Sound Creative Wonderful Produce Expected Singers Brown Can Not Audacity

Author:Rufus Reid

“I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Able Next Sound Mistake Produce Personality Copies Biggest Mistake Broadcasters

Author:Joe Bowen

“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.”

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt