Quotes About Harmony

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?" They're really saying "I love you" I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll ever know And I think to myself, what a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I was in harmony with everything and I was saved, too, but lost in a way as well... but I think this will probably be my salvation...

Our willingness to embrace this paradox of free will and surrender is how we honor spirit in our lives.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

The original prohibitions at public pools were put in place in fear of this very thing: people of different races, genders, and backgrounds mixing together.

Differences fell away in the water.

Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...

You can disagree on everything but still work together on one thing... if that one thing is important enough.

and still am, suspicious of the idea of oneness. I don't buy into the homogeneity of the human experience. I don't think we're all one. We can be one, but I don't think we have to see things the same way for that to be so. An anarchic thought: We're one but we're not the same. We get to carry each other, not that we've got to, just that we get to.

To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Many can claim to love music, but very few, in my experience, can claim music loves them back

We're one but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other.

There is no them. There's only us.

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground - even with your opponents...especially with your opponents.

Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.