Quotes About Harmony

The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.

In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

The universe speaks if you will learn to listen.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.

que la música en los oídos de los demás sea mi sinfonía, que la sonrisa en los labios de los demás sea mi felicidad».

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

There's a biological basis for music, and that biological basis is the similarity between music and speech," said Purves. "That's the reason we like music. Music is far more complex than [the ratios of] Pythagoras. The reason doesn't have to do with mathematics, it has to do with biology.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

Johannes Kepler published his book Harmonices Mundi in 1619. In it he proposed that it was the Creator who "decorated" the whole world, using mathematical and musical harmonic proportions. The spiritual and the physical are united.

no one has ever gone to war over music.

There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.

the masculine and the feminine? What is one without the other, for how else would the world exist? But each one contains elements of the other too. So use your power, but when others are too strong, be soft; when softness loses vigour, be strong.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

Listen to the crickets," she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.

And maybe one day people will accept each other for who they are and not which race they're born to," I said. He gave me the classic Walter look, the one that says, "You may be the adult, but who do you think you're kidding?

I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.