Quotes About Harmony

The great musics of the world are great for very similar structural reasons: good melody, good harmony, and a balance of feminine and masculine energy.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

If the chords change a lot over the course of a song, it's better to stay within the same melodic structure.

I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure.

Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Everybody struggles to find a balance between their personal lives and their professional lives, and in some cases, their connection with the community. So what I've looked to do over the years is marry as many of those as I can.

The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.