Joachim-Ernst Berendt quotes

“At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.”
-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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“Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such.”
-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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“Listening begins with being silent.”
-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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“Before we make music, music makes us.”
-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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“Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.”
-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

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“Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.”

“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....”

Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

“Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.”

“I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.”