It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
~By Audre Lorde ~
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
~By John Fogerty ~
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~By Cat Stevens ~
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
~By Paul Simon ~
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.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
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.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
~By Catharine Beecher ~
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
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.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
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.
~By Edward Witten ~
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
~By Josiah Royce ~
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
~By Jean Genet ~
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
~By Thomas Merton ~
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
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.
~By Alvar Aalto ~
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
~By Tina Turner ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
~By Henry Rollins ~
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.
~By Frank Bruno ~
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.
~By Henri Poincare ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
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.
~By Jack Kingston ~
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
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.
~By James McBride ~
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.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
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.
~By Max Bill ~
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.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
~By George Washington ~
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.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
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.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
~By Dennis Banks ~
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.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
~By Xun Zi ~
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
~By Elvis Costello ~
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Peace, unity and harmony!
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
~By Emma Goldman ~
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
~By Lope de Vega ~
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
~By Elizabeth Fishel ~
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
~By Artur Rodzinski ~
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
~By Sallust ~
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
~By James Allen ~
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.
~By George William Russell ~
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.
~By Adrian Smith ~
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
~By Lope de Vega ~
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.
~By Corita Kent ~
Truth is inner harmony.
~By Walther Rathenau ~
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
~By Robert Plant ~
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.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
~By Sallust ~
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
~By Lionel Hampton ~
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.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
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.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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.
~By Christopher Alexander ~
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
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.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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.
~By Lech Walesa ~
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.
~By Mike Figgis ~
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.
~By Stephen Stills ~
Virtue is harmony.
~By Pythagoras ~
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
~By Heraclitus ~
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
~By Anatole France ~
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
~By Plutarch ~
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.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
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