Quotes About Harmony

It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.

The artificial leg was like an alien body, fitted to mine. Both had to respond to each other.

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We are going to unite this people. We will unite whites and blacks, homosexuals and heterosexuals... We will unite bosses and employees, and we won't plant the seed of discord between them.

Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you've got Muslims, you've got Jews, you've got Christians, you've got gays, you've got straights, you've got blacks, you've got whites. I think, 'How can I unite these people through song?'

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

So much of this league is just about alignment. Who cares what you believe in, who cares what your culture is, can you get a group of people that are aligned?

You know when you just get around someone and they just vibrate at a really good level? You can't put your finger on it but you meet these people in your life, they walk into the room as a stranger and you just go, 'Whoa. They've got it.'

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

I'm dementedly optimistic, and whoever I'm with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.