Harmonic Quotes

#1. The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

Howard Shore

#2. She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Rachel Hauck

#3. You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about.

Bent Saether

#4. The first model is Christian, founded on the idea that God wills proportional and harmonic inequalities among the social classes, all of whose members are entitled to at least sufficient living conditions. The second model is based on the erroneous idea that all inequality is unjust.

Plinio Correa De Oliveira

#5. The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

Sidney Coleman

#6. The brain is a harmonic instrument.
It vibrates to the same wavelength.

Toba Beta

#7. A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

#8. Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Vitruvius

#9. Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

#10. Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Plato

#11. I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series.

Leonard Bernstein

#12. Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

Chuck Israels

#13. As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Darren Criss

#14. The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.

Manuel De Falla

#15. His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

Lita Burke

#16. The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

Nadia Boulanger

#17. After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

#18. Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean's souls to joy.

Jack Kerouac

#19. I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Charlie Parker

#20. By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.

Corinne Heline

#21. Does not ... the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. spin the rings above the speed of sound to establish the harmonic connection." Langford

Michael C. Grumley

#23. Johannes Kepler published his book Harmonices Mundi in 1619. In it he proposed that it was the Creator who "decorated" the whole world, using mathematical and musical harmonic proportions. The spiritual and the physical are united.

David Byrne

#24. The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Manuel De Falla

#25. Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

Henry James

#26. The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million. Because they multiply!

Stephen King

#27. Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

Joni Mitchell

#28. My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Paul Simon

#29. Who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception,

Douglas Adams

#30. I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

Jason Graves

#31. Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.

Jimmy Heath

#32. You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robin Williams

#33. A harmonic, forward-looking approach to practice governance discipline has to be put at the heart of corporate board in the digital age.

Pearl Zhu

#34. What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#35. Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#36. You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

Robin Williams

#37. Music is all about the intervals, and if the set of intervals within a scale is different - even though the scales share the same harmonic structure - then the sound of that scale will be different as well. What

Nicolas Carter

#38. 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

#39. Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.

Kelby Losack