Quotes About Harmony

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

People in the Middle East, people everywhere, want peace. But unfortunately too many fail to recognize that that lasting peace can only be found with pluralistic, secular government.

We are increasingly becoming a pluralistic nation.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

A really good poem is full of music.

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.