Quotes About Harmony

I'm not interested in making an album that's just dark and pummelling for an hour, nor am I interested in making a beatless record from start to finish.

There are so many egos in this game - maybe we all need to come down a notch.

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

It's not about the individual notes. It's about the energy.

I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.