Lets Listen To Some Music

(I heard music in the rainforest.)

Lets listen to some music -


"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."

- Joseph Addison


"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

-Maya Angelou


"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Berthold Auerbach


"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

- Ludwig van Beethoven


"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "

- Miles Davis

We Sang The Same Old Lang Syne.

(Yesterday's lost, I still feel today. So I've another day of tribute as I remembered The Same Old Lang Syne).

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness but neither one knew how
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence, another 'auld lang syne'

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out and I watched her drive away
Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain

And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned in to rain...

- Dan Folgeberg, Same Old Lang Syne from the Album The Innocent Age, 1981


We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time
Feel that old familiar pain, as we sang the Same Old Lang Syne.

- Ghostwise

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When you’re not near me
The time don’t seem to move as easy
When you’re not near me
The sun don’t seem to feel the same
The days don’t shine as brightly
And the nights don’t taste as sweet
And this soul of mine feels
lost and incomplete.

- Dan Folgeberg, When You're Not Near Me from the Album Full Circle, 2003


When you're not near me
I fill the space with your music.

- Ghostwise

Our "Leader Of The Band".

(Yesterday, one of my favorite singer/songwriter – Dan Folgelberg passed away after a long bout with prostrate cancer. He was only 56. In his most famous song “Leader Of The Band”, he paid tribute to his father through this famous line “Thank you for the freedom when it came my time to go”. Today, Ghostwise pays tribute to this amazing songwriter who will always be his leader of the band and for all of us who loves his music, we’re the living legacies to the leader of our band…)

I thank you for the music
And your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom
When it came my time to go
I thank you for the kindness
And the times when you got tough
And, papa, I don't think I said
'I love you' near enough

The leader of the band is tired
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I'm just a living legacy
To the leader of the band

- Dan Folgelberg, Leader Of The Band from the album The Innocent Age 1981


We thank you for the music
And your stories of the road
We’re the living legacies
To the leader of our band

- Ghostwise

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I was raised by a river
Weaned upon the sky
And in the mirror of the waters
I saw myself learn to cry

- Dan Folgelberg, The River from the album Home Free 1972


By the river today,
I saw the ripples of my tears

- Ghostwise

Politicians Come And Go But Music Never Lies.

Music has that power because music is not like politicians. Music is always there. Politicians come in every four or five years, lie to the people, get what they want at that time, and disappear, but music is there every time. It can change the world.

-Lucky Dube

Politicians come and go but music never lies.

- Ghostwise

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"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity)

- Albert Einstein

Einstein said – his theory of relativity is music, is art.

- Ghostwise

The Music Of Silence.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

- Leopole Stokowski

Which is why, the best way to listen to music is to close our eyes, and to close our mind.

- Ghostwise

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer


The sweetest sound in the entire universe is silence.

- Ghostwise