Quotes About Harmony

No violent extreme endures.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The violin sings.

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

There is no VIP. We're all the same.

The politics of division are not what we want in New Jersey and Virginia and elsewhere.

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.