Quotes About Harmony

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that's something that's unreported. I think it's partly my libertarian tendencies.

Modern media has a real tendency to focus on the divisions rather than the commonalities.

I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Tension is the great integrity.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

On my sets, everybody seems very relaxed. I always try to avoid any tension before it even begins. A shooting has to be like a party. The creative process must be joyful, even if the final result is meant to be sad or scary.

I think the only way for us to move forward is to take care of each other and understand each other better and become cells in a communal body that moves forward in coordination and not in aggression or tension. A lot of that has to do with giving people the chance to express themselves, but also giving people the chance to feel important.

If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.

I can confidently say that I am comfortable with all the directors, co-star and producers with whom I have worked; there have been absolutely no tensions.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.