Quotes About Harmony

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?

There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

In a studio context, the music becomes greater than the sum of its parts. When you have collaboration, you have other people's strengths that I don't share, so my song can get stronger.

In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

Gardens aren't just for summer.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.