Quotes About Harmony

When you mix a record that someone else is on, you've got to send it to them. They've got to like the mix, you got to like the mix, the producer's got to like the mix. Too many people are involved!

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

If I've made something really serene... well, if everything is like that, it's like having too much icing on your cake. You need something else under it, some kind of grounding. It's like if you're making a film, you can't have only happy moments, or else they become meaningless.

You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something - that's when you've got to learn how to balance.

Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You've got to balance things out.

I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Music is a tool that brings people together.

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

Music is a healing tool.

I often use triadic arpeggio forms within my riffs and solos as a tool to create rich-sounding, poly-chordal sounds.

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

If you put music on top of noise, it's like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn't taste like one.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

I just love matching sets. Tops and bottoms that are the same color are awesome to me, because you can get them in so many different colors - neon colors.