Quotes About Harmony

I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.

Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

Let's cast aside notions of red counties or blue counties and recognize that these are artificial divisions.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Music is nourishment.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

We have numerous mandirs, gurudwaras, and mosques in my Congressional district and all across the U.S.

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so you're not resentful.

India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.