Quotes About Harmony

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

All of heaven we have below.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.