Quotes About Harmony

I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making something that flows together, that brings you back.

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.

I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.

Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

My life as an android was neat, balanced, and had real redeeming social value.

This had not changed in thousands of years, and it might very well stay just like this for another five or six years, until somebody wanted to build condos. Beautiful wild things were killing each other all around me, and there was something soothing about sitting here and feeling like I was a part of a process that went on practically forever. Maybe there really was something to this whole Nature business after all.

And then I felt a strange stirring inside, a kind of surging fulfillment, a feeling that things were just the way they should be, now and evermore, world without end; that what was brought together here must never be rent asunder.

Have you ever noticed that when you're right on track everything else starts to go right, too? It's like the universe is saying Good job! Have a sandwich!

Rita sighed and smiled happily. "Anyway," she said again, and I had to agree.

Harvard biologist and entomologist E. O. Wilson's coined term "Biofilia," by which he means the emotional affiliation humans feel toward other living organisms

The last thing you need are any false accusations or rumours that will only cause ill-feeling among your staff.

They [the dogs] danced in excited harmany... From The Cutting Edge.

The rythm of our bodies, she believed, is linked to our souls' pulse. 'Praying For Sleep

She was the still point in the turning world.

Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication.