Sri Aurobindo on Music - from the Letters

- Is Music Superior to Other Arts?
- Music Goes Direct to the Intuition
- Importance of Music in Education
- Rhythm and Movement
- Significance of Metrical Rhythm in the Mantra
- Can Music be Admitted as a Part of Life of Yoga?
- The Outer Singer Should Disappear
- Forget the Audience

Poetry with Musical References

Some References to Music from Savitri

   
 

Forget the Audience

I do not see any necessity for giving up singing altogether; I only meant, - it is the logical conclusion from what I have written to you, not now only but before, - that the inner change must be the first consideration and the rest must arise out of that. If singing to an audience pulls you out of the inner condition, then you could postpone that and sing for yourself and the Divine until you are able, even in facing an audience, to forget the audience. If you are troubled by failure or excited by success, that also you must overcome.

 
- Sri Aurobindo