Harmony Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Harmony Quotes from famous authors such as Amin Maalouf, Sharon Van Etten, Augustus Sol Invictus, Alanis Morissette, Louise L. Hay. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
It’s the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I’m a daydreamer; I don’t feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Amin Maalouf
2
I can’t read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically.
Sharon Van Etten
3
Ninety-nine percent of the things that seem weird in my life can be answered with my religion. Paganism is mostly about nature-worship. It’s about being in harmony with your environment and bringing the world of spirit and world of man together. It’s about balance.
Augustus Sol Invictus
4
Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there’s not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver’s seat.
Alanis Morissette
5
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
6
In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America’s first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
Lionel Shriver
7
I don’t really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don’t turn things off. I’ve found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
Doug Aitken
8
When you’re in a band it’s a 24/7 thing. If you don’t get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.
Keren Woodward
9
Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading – the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.
John Petrucci
10
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Norman McLaren
12
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
13
Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
Emmanuelle Beart
14
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
John Fogerty
15
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz
16
My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
Najib Razak
17
People don’t realize you’re blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it’s got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I’m home.
James McBride
18
One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can’t figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what’s the point?
Zacky Vengeance
19
We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.
Amy Bloom
20
Beethoven’s importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim
21
The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
Ellen G. White
22
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
Renzo Piano
23
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
Zooey Deschanel
24
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.
Tim Gunn
25
Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schiffer really proved to me that curves and fashion can work in beautiful harmony.
Denise Bidot
26
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
Lope de Vega
27
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
Gian Carlo Menotti
28
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
29
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Vitruvius
30
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridge
31
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society’s feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Juan Goytisolo
32
People always want to learn how to booty pop like Fifth Harmony, so that’s our signature.
Dinah Jane
33
I wish the people of India and Pakistan peace and harmony. Artistes and craftsmen in both the countries must interact with each other as talent has no borders. We both have common music, culture and craftsmanship.
Zeenat Aman
34
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
Confucius
35
So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It’s a way of navigating one’s emotional frameworks, but without the need to put things into words, and I think that, as with many other languages, it doesn’t matter how much you know about a language.
Jacob Collier
36
My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.
Kamasi Washington
37
There’s a feeling among white Americans that there’s no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.
Jess Row
38
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Ray Stevens
39
Moderate doesn’t mean that you’re a wimp – far from it. It means that you’ve chosen a path because you believe that’s the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak
40
Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!
Nancy Wilson
41
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.
Narendra Modi
42
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
Elvis Costello
43
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
44
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard
45
I guess I’d like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
Caroline Shaw
46
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.
Nathaniel Rateliff
47
We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.
Ananya Panday
48
Harmony singing isn’t meant to be done alone.
Morgan Neville
49
I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together… liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn’t writing when we met – in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.
Ray Charles
50
In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
51
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
52
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
Stephen Stills
53
I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships – films which focus on love and harmony.
Asha Bhosle
54
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.
Joseph P. Bradley
55
When I arrived, I didn’t understand London customers perfectly, but we’ve developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I’m in harmony with London.
Alain Ducasse
56
Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That’s an historical fact.
Jack Keane
57
Whether or not I tour forever, I’m not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
Jason Mraz
58
If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children’s temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.
Rudolf Steiner
59
If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
60
I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.
Donna McKechnie
61
But the beauty of Einstein’s equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who’s experienced it as the beauty of music. We’ve learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
Edward Witten
62
The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
John Howard
63
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold
64
I always sang harmony with my family growing up.
Linda Ronstadt
65
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.
Herbie Hancock
66
If you listen to my tapes, you’d hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You’d have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I’m easy to please.
Tom Scholz
67
Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
Sadie Jones
68
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Heraclitus
69
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
70
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
Dalai Lama
71
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Eisaku Sato
72
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
73
Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They’re anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person’s life when there are five individual women.
Camila Cabello
74
I’ve always been a jazz fan, but I don’t write much about jazz, because I don’t have the chops. But it’s really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don’t have a good knowledge of harmony and can’t identify rhythm signatures very easily either.
Robert Christgau
75
We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.
Andy Muschietti
76
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
77
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist
78
I wish there were more, if there if there were more George H.W. Bushes in the world, we’d be, we’d have a lot more harmony, a lot more freedom, a lot more peace on earth, and I’m just so proud of his legacy he left earlier.
Neil Bush
79
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
John Crowe Ransom
80
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen
81
We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn’t do a bunch of weird time signatures… which are cool at times, but I’m more interested in progressive harmony.
Synyster Gates
82
My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
Kabir Bedi
83
We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle
84
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin’ to me once, but I believe it now.
Gene Wilder
85
We’d just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.
George Jones
86
Nowadays you need a strong aero package, a good aerodynamic car, but also mechanically you cannot afford to have poor suspension. It all goes together as a package and you have to have harmony in the car.
Nico Hulkenberg
87
I often wonder if we could not solve the world’s problems on a similar basis of harmony.
Artur Rodzinski
88
‘Harmony of Difference,’ to me, was an opportunity to celebrate one another. And ‘Fists of Fury’ is an opportunity for us to protect one another.
Kamasi Washington
89
For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost like the way an athlete trains for a given sporting task. I’d listen to something if I felt it would improve my sense of harmony or counterpoint, or whatever I was working on.
Chris Thile
90
I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, ‘Pygmalion,’ by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that’s what I wanted to do.
Harry Dean Stanton
91
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
92
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that’s why I can play lots of instruments.
Jack Garratt
93
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
George William Russell
94
Jeremy Scott reminds me of Harmony Korine, mixing all worlds and making them into one – you just never know what he’s up to.
ASAP Ferg
95
Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
Anton du Beke
96
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
Elie Metchnikoff
97
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.
William Godwin
98
The Dalai Lama’s entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
Joe Nichols
99
The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.
Murray Rothbard
100
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
Khaleda Zia
101
A pianist practices for up to 10 hours a day. Then, when he takes to the stage, you see the harmony. Having such an elegant touch is a natural gift, but it’s the daily training which allows you to perform that miracle and create feeling, even if you were born tone-deaf.
Gianfranco Zola
102
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
Joseph Rotblat
103
My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
Ben Carson
104
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
Tina Turner
105
Formal education must change. It needs to be brought into closer alignment with the world as it actually is, into closer harmony with the way human beings actually learn and thrive.
Sal Khan
106
There’s something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Tom Lehrer
107
You’ll get the maximum potential out of everyone on your team when you create harmony, when you treat each employee well.
Rande Gerber
108
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
Catharine Beecher
109
In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.
Maya Angelou
110
I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue – and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country – they had something new and very exciting.
Ian Gillan
111
My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.
Joyce Banda
112
Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
Ellen G. White
113
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.
Paulo Coelho
114
It’s a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.
Hubert de Givenchy
115
When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
Nathaniel Rateliff
116
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
Mike Figgis
117
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.
Hans Hofmann
118
Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
Joseph de Maistre
119
I like The Erised for the harmony of their addictive beats mix, and I like Allie X for her distinct style and incredible lyrics – they are pure art.
Connor Franta
120
Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.
Fabiola Gianotti
121
When you see the best of the best – when you see a Matisse or a Picasso – what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
Hubert de Givenchy
122
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.
Pico Iyer
123
There are rules that are so blatantly broken on ‘Contra,’ like structures of harmony and texture.
Rostam Batmanglij
124
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti
125
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
Freddie Mercury
126
You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
Aaron Neville
127
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
Gary Zukav
128
I definitely don’t subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Joanna Newsom
129
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Heber J. Grant
130
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
Cormac McCarthy
131
Governments don’t like harmony.
Anubhav Sinha
132
I don’t think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.
Hubert de Givenchy
133
India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.
Sushma Swaraj
134
My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.
Bill Bruford
135
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
Peace Pilgrim
136
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms
137
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
Isaac Hanson
138
You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.
M. S. Swaminathan
139
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Hermann Hesse
140
One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They’re really spelling things out and turning chords into melodies instead of just letting them be these hanging blocks of color.
David Longstreth
141
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
142
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
143
My favorite punk rock song is ‘Linoleum’ by NOFX. That’s pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.
Synyster Gates
144
At the end of the day, I just want the world to live in peace and harmony.
Masi Oka
145
In ‘Kill Rock n’ Roll,’ the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that’s not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there’s heavy guitars in the back.
Daron Malakian
146
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa
147
My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is a message that co-existence is indeed possible. Design creates an ideal world where different ideas live close to each other in perfect harmony.
Marcel Wanders
148
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Paulo Coelho
149
I’ve met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.
Katherine Dunn
150
I’m the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you’re not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
Art Garfunkel
151
My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.
Katy B
152
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt
153
The great musics of the world are great for very similar structural reasons: good melody, good harmony, and a balance of feminine and masculine energy.
Chris Thile
154
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.
Herbie Hancock
155
Fifth Harmony is its own entity.
Normani Kordei
156
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
Diane von Furstenberg
157
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
Jim Mattis
158
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Alvar Aalto
159
John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
James McBride
160
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ in three-part harmony.
Steve Miller
161
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
162
Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama
163
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
164
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
165
The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
166
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
167
I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.
Ang Lee
168
The element of harmony is super important.
Pharrell Williams
169
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Lionel Hampton
170
In 1988, the Summer Olympics were held in Korea, which was a divided country… It was an opportunity for the East and the West to come together in harmony and also take a significant role in ending the Cold War era.
Moon Jae-in
171
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Max Bill
172
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Henri Poincare
173
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
174
If you have a harmonious society where people within the family are living in harmony… knowing what their responsibilities and duties are, and knowing how to resolve their issues and their conflicts without violence, then violence against women will be reduced, and women will feel they have a voice.
Rula Ghani
175
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
Gary Zukav
176
Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.
Baiju Bhatt
177
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
Elizabeth Fishel
178
People with malicious intentions will never succeed in disrupting the peace and harmony of India.
Anurag Thakur
179
I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent – you know, a Japanese guitar – and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend’s Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.
Alex Lifeson
180
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Kuang
181
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
182
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you’re just so much stronger, especially in really intense, stressful situations, like ‘Fight Master.’
Frank Shamrock
183
Fifth Harmony are all feminists. It’s our duty to reach out to people and let them know a woman can be just as powerful as a man can be.
Dinah Jane
184
Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.
William Godwin
185
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston
186
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes – errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: ‘Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn’t know about this.’
Ryuichi Sakamoto
187
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
188
I’m doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It’s very important to me – and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.
Jimmy Carl Black
189
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
Adrian Smith
190
I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.
Sophia Loren
191
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas
192
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev
193
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it’s much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing
194
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.
Nicholson Baker
195
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
196
The way I see it, my blood, sweat, and tears are not just for me; it’s for Fifth Harmony as well. We have been blessed. Most groups have lead singers, but we don’t.
Normani Kordei
197
This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.
Michelle Yeoh
198
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
Robert Delaunay
199
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah Royce
200
Everything I’ve designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.
Matthew Williamson
201
Once you’ve developed some technical facility on the guitar, the musical side (which entails theory, harmony, chord structure, ear training, sight-reading, composition and being able to hear chord progressions and licks) comes into play a lot more.
John Petrucci
202
There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.
Hailemariam Desalegn
203
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
Corita Kent
204
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
Bashar al-Assad
205
It’s very good for one’s brain and muscular system to work in harmony. If you keep up your playing it just keeps things ticking over.
Julian Bream
206
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
Richard G. Scott
207
We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.
Mikis Theodorakis
208
Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I’m passionate about.
Nargis Fakhri
209
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
210
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz
211
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt
212
I’m much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony.
Neel Mukherjee
213
The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it’s well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you’re wearing it.
Paul Feig
214
I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We’re very respectful people, and very humble people… and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.
Tony Finau
215
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
Bruce Babbitt
216
I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I’d always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I’d always try and find another harmony that wasn’t there.
Paolo Nutini
217
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Dayananda Saraswati
218
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander
219
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas
220
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
James Allen
221
Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.
James E. Faust
222
We’re fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.
Synyster Gates
223
It is not easy to age in harmony with one’s roles.
Emmanuelle Beart
224
I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
Nancy Wilson
225
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner
226
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
Diane von Furstenberg
227
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
228
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
229
Don and I are infamous for our split, but we’re closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.
Phil Everly
230
We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we’re just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what’s important to the group is important to all five of us.
Lauren Jauregui
231
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.
Toni Servillo
232
If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.
Max Heindel
233
Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of ‘I’ll Take Care of You.’ And Don Henley’s performance of ‘The Heart of the Matter’ still just slays me every time I hear it.
J. D. Souther
234
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
235
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Bryant H. McGill
236
Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.
Lynn Coady
237
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
Leni Riefenstahl
238
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of economic harmony into a justification for supporting industrialists, who were the nation’s job creators.
Heather Cox Richardson
239
To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
Evan Osnos
240
Because we’re not in harmony with the environment, we’re destroying the environment that supports us.
Bruce Lipton
241
In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the ‘using class struggle as guiding principle’ government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.
Liu Xiaobo
242
Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
Giorgio Moroder
243
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
Piet Mondrian
244
People would call me up because they liked my voice, and they wanted some kind of vocal harmony. Sometimes I was asked to come in and sing all the harmony parts, and sometimes I would sing with other people.
Timothy B. Schmit
245
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
Christian Scott
246
It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.
Park Won-soon
247
The sound of the Seekers, that four-part harmony sound, three boys and a girl, is so unlikely, you would not choose those four voices to blend together.
Judith Durham
248
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
Paul Rand
249
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music – how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are – the more you’ll enjoy it.
Jools Holland
250
We get asked all the time if we’re getting a fifth member, and we wanted to show the world in an artistic way that, ‘Hey the four of us are Fifth Harmony,’ and we’re stronger and better than we’ve ever been.
Ally Brooke
251
I feel like it’s the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.
Ashley Monroe
252
A Hamilton-Vettel combination, on paper, would look very attractive to any team. However, what you have to look at is the dynamics of any partnership like that and it’s difficult to see how two sportsmen at the absolute top of their game could work in harmony under one roof.
Christian Horner
253
Songs like ‘Peaceful World’ and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.
India Arie
254
I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
Edgar Winter
255
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
Barbara Jordan
256
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
257
For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States – more than any other country.
Alain Juppe
258
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
259
I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell – this is, like, early ’70s stuff. I love the stuff from the ’40s. I love that tight harmony that the studio singers in the ’50s would sing. I love Patsy Cline. Yeah, I’m all over the place.
Jane Lynch
260
There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
Cat Stevens
261
There’s no harmony in most people in a way, and I’m attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.
Greg Kinnear
262
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
Chen-Ning Yang
263
I’m a cuddler; I like harmony.
Lothar Matthaus
264
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras
265
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.
Narendra Modi
266
And if you’re singing to someone, or if they’re singing along, and suddenly you’re in harmony, then it’s actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
Jason Mraz
267
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
268
If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it’s lackluster and no fun to watch.
Phil Everly
269
If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
Wen Jiabao
270
We’re falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people’s heads; they don’t understand it.
Ne-Yo
271
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Audre Lorde
272
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
Dalai Lama
273
Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama
274
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
Twyla Tharp
275
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Shigeru Yoshida
276
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Ligeti
277
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.
John Piper
278
I wanted to create a line for women and men alike that would encourage them to embrace the harmony and divine balance of sensuality and spirituality within all of us. Forplai is an opportunity to not only smell good and feel good, but to also take time to connect with the heavens above and the god in you.
Lamman Rucker
279
Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you’re going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you’ve done something and there’s a slight difference in your breathing.
Phil Everly
280
Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.
Lou Barlow