Quotes About Harmony

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Having Brian Wilson sing on my album was an unforgettable experience.

I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.

It is good to win awards but the most important is to win together.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

In sports, a team is surrounded with people with different backgrounds, with different races, and with different religions. In order to win, everybody comes together. I feels like that's what the U.S.A. represents. Everyone just has to come together in order to win.

I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

For any collaboration to work, each partner must have a strong sense of identity. If one overpowers the other, it's like mixing lemonade with water - you wind up diluting the brew.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.

Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

I play the keyboard, but I am fond of all wind instruments, the oboe in particular.