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Harmonies are nice. -- Maurice Gibb
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. -- Benny Green
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality. -- Al Jardine
My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano. -- Brian Wilson
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. -- Brian May
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. -- Jimmy Page
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that. -- Alex Turner
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. -- Nate Ruess
I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos. -- Zooey Deschanel
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies. -- El DeBarge
I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks. -- Bonnie McKee
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. -- Lupe Fiasco
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. -- Johannes Brahms
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. -- Steven Pinker
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir. -- Greg Graffin
Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius. -- Nicki Minaj
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals. -- David Nail
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that. -- Greg Graffin
In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. -- Michio Kaku
Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don't have to labor too hard over them. I'll sing a lead vocal, and then I will immediately have all of these other ideas for vocal harmonies. I think that some of the most fun parts of recording, for me, are the vocal harmonies. -- Juliana Hatfield
I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically. -- Taylor Hawkins
I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out. -- Paul McDonald
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar. -- M. Ward
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers. -- Mason Cooley
Love is the most melodious of all harmonies. -- Honore de Balzac
A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies. -- Brian May
Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies. -- Edouard Vuillard
Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature. -- Robert Gilman
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. -- Robert Collyer
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality -- Al Jardine
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. -- George Santayana
My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies. -- David Massengill
Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great. -- Lemmy Kilmister
The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles. -- Brian Miller
I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing. -- Amerie
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. -- Paul Gauguin
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. -- Sophie Swetchine
I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. -- Michel Legrand
As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. -- Donald Fagen
We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that. -- Bruce Johnston
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords. -- George Perkins Marsh
It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar. -- M. Ward
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. -- Henry Ward Beecher
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. -- Charles Wright
art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies. -- Arthur Wesley Dow
I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies. -- Emily Saliers
My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all. -- Zach Condon
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore. -- Linda Perhacs
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness. -- Paul Gauguin
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies. -- Chuck Mangione
I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice. -- Levon Helm
Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through. -- Itzhak Perlman
La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand. -- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
I felt like there was a void in the marketplace in girl groups. Musically, there is something truly exciting about harmonies in one song. A group has more to offer. -- Kelly Rowland
I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other. -- Zooey Deschanel
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. -- Cat Stevens
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt. -- Andrew Hill
I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him. -- Boy George
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Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. -- James Weldon Johnson
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. -- Paul Robeson
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies. -- Roy Wood
My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.' -- Chrissie Fit
I write my lyrics the day I sing the song, so even when I have the basic things, I'm thinking what can I change, what can I add, how many harmonies can I do. -- Kirk Windstein
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music. -- Julia McNair Wright
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way. -- Eric Whitacre
... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship. -- Toby Keith

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