Quotes About Harmony

I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.

I think it would be cool to maybe do something with Ed Sheeran. That would be awesome and interesting. He writes amazing songs, and I could easily hear Backstreet Boys sing 'Shape Of You.'

The unique thing about Bob Marley, he writes what relates to everybody.

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

To grow a song, you must plant a note.

El cuerpo pide disculpas al alma por sus errores, y el alma pide perdón al cuerpo por ocuparlo sin haber sido invitada.

Simpatico, it's Italian for 'sympathetic.' Hearts beating to the same pulse. That's what music does for one, you know—I mean, for two. For more. It trains hearts to lean in the same direction. Sympathetically.

The madder the battle, the saner the peace.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive." And whatever liberates our spirit while giving us mastery over ourselves is constructive.

There is only love.

One of life's small pleasures is to return something to its proper place;

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.

There's no right or best way to create a better life. Nevertheless, while each of us may define and achieve outer order in different ways, it's clear that for most people, outer order does indeed contribute to inner calm.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself.… The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, The Timeless Way of Building

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need do only inner work . . . that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself. . . . The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. —Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building

False Choice Loophole: This is the loophole-seeking strategy I most often invoke. I pose two activities in opposition, as though I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren't necessarily in conflict.

The Four Tendencies can help us . . . to give other people what they need-not what we would need. And then we can work together more harmoniously.

how a couple fights matters more than how much they fight.

I wanted a pace of life that was deliberate—that felt neither fast nor slow.