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
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. – Elvis Costello
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. – Catharine Beecher
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. – Esa-Pekka Salonen
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
We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues. – F. Sionil Jose
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
We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us. – Eckhart Tolle
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille
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
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
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
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony. – Dalai Lama
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. – Dennis Banks
Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I’m passionate about. – Nargis Fakhri
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. – John Crowe Ransom
If you listen to The Browns, it’s a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I’ve never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn’t be imitated. – Jim Ed Brown
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. – Karlheinz Stockhausen
My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony. – Kina Grannis
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. – Marshall McLuhan