Quotes About Harmony

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the very best scenario, sometimes a lyric will pop out with a melody, simultaneously. That's a lovely thing, but you can't rely on that.

India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously, and her people at any given time and place encapsulate all the contradictions that come from being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

No matter where you're from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else - what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha... sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

I like choir music. I sincerely do!

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing.

I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.

I sing in the morning.

I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half!

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.