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What does it mean?
Music is likened to a church, suggesting it serves as a religious or spiritual practice for the artist.
In plain terms
Music is a religion to us.
What can you take from it?
Treat music as a spiritual practice.

Where it applies

  • performing
  • listening
  • community gathering

Putting it to work

  • create sacred space through music
  • find spirituality in art

Questions to consider

  • Can art be a religion?
  • What gives you spiritual peace?

Another view

Music cannot replace all functions of organized religion.

More from Jimi Hendrix

  1. 'You can leave if you want, we're just jammin' that's all.'

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  2. 'Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.'

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  3. 'When you die you're just getting rid of that old body.'

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