Quotes About Harmony

As Duke Ellington once said, "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to "good" music transcends questions of genre.

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly, said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.

There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.

Everything is there but there are no parts. Since there are no parts there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things just let yourself soak it all in. For Nakata nothing could be better.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.

Nature grants its beauty to us all, drawing no line between rich and poor.

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?.. It is if you become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or grass or flower. It takes time, but once the butterfly lets it guard down, you can become friends quiet naturally.

Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.

I get up out of bed. I pull back the old, faded curtain and open the window. I stick my head out and look up at the sky. Sure enough, a mouldy-coloured half-moon hangs in the sky. Good. We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot.

Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time.

The world is like a great big overcoat, and it needs pockets of various shapes and sizes.

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere...in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything... I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

When words leave off, music begins.