Quotes About Harmony

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...

What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do the strains blend in strange ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full throated chorus? We cannot know. All we can do is to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine.

Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art.

No individual is solely reflective, emotional, active, or experimental, and different life situations call for different resources to be brought into play. Most people will, on the whole, find travel on one road more satisfactory than on others and will consequently tend to keep close to it; but Hinduism encourages people to test all four and combine them as best suits their needs.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

Love isn't about having someone who's perfect. It's about having someone who's perfect for you.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

When the results of your behavior meet your needs over time, you experience inner peace.

The mind naturally seeks harmony when presented with two opposing principles.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Engels suggested that "real human freedom" can be achieved only in a society that exists "in harmony with the laws of nature.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

Talking of his relationship with Jarrett, DeJohnette says, "I love him because, as a pianist and drummer myself, I can identify with him … the concept of what to ignore, what to leave in, what to leave out… we intuitively understand that … that's why when we play together… we never know what's going to happen, but we always get something happening that turns us on.

Here for a moment is a glimpse of my plan: All kids will be happy learning things. The wind will smell of wild flowers. Nobody will whack each other about with nasty things. All the room in the world.

As Aristotle observed, "A beautiful object, whether it be a living organism or any whole composed of parts, must not only have an orderly arrangement of parts, but must also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty depends on magnitude and order.

The last song recorded for Abbey Road was Lennon's BECAUSE - a three-part harmony in C sharp minor inspired by hearing Yoko Ono play the Adagio sostenuto of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight).

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

Here's to all the songs and all their singers, in times of darkness and times of light.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.