Quotes About Harmony

My muse has always been the piano.

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.

Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.

What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.

My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.