Harmony : (22)

" Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves. " - Edward Hirsch

" If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. " - Richard M. Nixon

" The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful. " - Mack Wilberg

" Normally when you write for an orchestra, you think about melody and harmony and countermelody. " - Ludwig Goransson

" 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

" My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton. " - Bill Bruford

" I’m a cuddler; I like harmony. " - Lothar Matthaus

" 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

" My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try. " - Mahesh Bhatt

" 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