Quotes About Harmony

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

I appeal to the youth to maintain peace and not indulge in violence.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

I believe that music is infinite.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.

I am not afraid of European influences. The point is to use them, as Ellington did, as part of my life as an American Negro.

Blues, rock, and soul are part of the music I make, but there are Indian influences, too.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

Love is the main ingredient. If you don't love, you can't love, you can't do good things.

Food is about the flavours that work well together, but when you've got great ingredients half the job is done for you.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

Divine organization is inherent in all things.

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

I think that all music is inherently political, and, at the same time, I'm interested in the politics of inclusion not exclusion. So I think that my goal is to make music that anybody can hear and feel moved by.