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Re: LOOP QUOTATIONS/ANECDOTES

nice work!
~tim


> [Original Message]
> From: Matthias Grob <matigrob@terra.com.br>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Date: 10/27/2005 5:51:39 PM
> Subject: Re: LOOP QUOTATIONS/ANECDOTES
>
> >I got this quotation from a new friend of mine online today and 
> >loved it and thought it was quite appropos for the
> >work we all do.
>
> great!
>
> >You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and 
> >that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and 
> >everything tries to be round.....The Sky is round, and I have heard 
> >that the Earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The 
> >Wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in 
> >circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....     Even the 
> >seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back 
> >again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from 
> >childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
> >
> >~Black Elk
>
> Maybe Black Elk did not know or think of spirals? He must have been 
> aware that noone had ever looked just like him before...
>
> You did not suggest to cite ourselves, but its really what I have...
> I am no poet, but a single time, one late night driving back from 
> mixing that impro, those lirics just came over me and they did fit 
> amazingly well into the ready music, as you can hear in "Repetition" 
> at http://matthias.grob.org/pMusic/CDsE.htm#mantra
>
>
> REPETITION
> M. Grob, February 1989
>
> We've found, that rithm is in all
> body, mind and even in our soul
> air is trembling at the speed of sound
> rhythm is in stars and stones around
> even as slow as years and ages
> turned over like pages
> generations - incarnations - revolutions - respirations
> some are harmonic, some are sad
> some are growing, some go mad
> some can feel all the vibes
> others just dream in the nights...
>
> But all can be aware
> of great power which is there:
> all is turning back but never it's the same
> all is turning back but never it's the same
>
> That's what creates the illusion of our universe !
> -- 
>
>
>           ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org