Quotes About Harmony

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

We are all woven of different colored threads and strengths and colors. We are all a part of something bigger, a very special part of something that continues to evolve. A more perfect union.

This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.

I love it when a few simple ingredients come together on a plate, and I think, 'Wow, that's a dish.'

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

There is a balance between mindful that you don't upset anyone, yet maintaining an authenticity that is not wrapped up in the minutiae of people's judgments of you.

Our differences - in race, sexual preference, economic - have always been used as distractions to keep us divided. We get so wrapped up in our own stories that we can't hear each other.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.