140 Harmony In Music Quotes

Following is our list of harmony in music quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about how to do harmony in a song.

Quick Jump To

Famous Harmony In Music Quotes

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. — Plutarch

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life. — Stephen Gaskin

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. - Lope de Vega

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. — Lope de Vega

Harmony is next to Godliness - Johann Sebastian Bach

Harmony is next to Godliness — Johann Sebastian Bach

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony. — Benny Goodman

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony. — Plato

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony. — Isidore of Seville

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home. — Rudolf Steiner

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. — Saadi Shirazi

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. — Abdu'l-Bahá

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. — Igor Stravinsky

Short Harmony In Music Quotes

  • Music is...the coordination between man and time. — Igor Stravinsky
  • If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon
  • There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras
  • Music is the space between the notes. — Claude Debussy
  • Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Be in harmony, yet be different. — Confucius
  • Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. — Heraclitus
  • The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage
  • The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein
  • If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Harmony In Music Image Quotes

Harmony in music quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Harmony In Music Quotes

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

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. — Eva Burrows

Harmony in music quote Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. — Rabindranath Tagore

Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings. — Jose Antonio Abreu

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. — Rick Rubin

Harmony in music quote Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music. — Jacques Attali

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does. — Paul Gauguin

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it — Plato

Music creates order out of chaos. — Yehudi Menuhin

Melody And Harmony Quotes

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. — B.K.S. Iyengar

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. — Johannes Brahms

Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind. — Porphyry

Harmony in music quote The earth has music for those who listen.
The earth has music for those who listen.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive. — Charlie Parker

I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty. — Jennifer Donnelly

Harmony in music quote A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony. — Daniel Levitin

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world. — Pete Seeger

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life. — Plato

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. — Art Garfunkel

Harmony And Love Quotes

An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm. — Leatrice Eiseman

It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves. — Charles Fillmore

In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself. — Mantak Chia

Harmony in music quote Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.

Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony. — Richie Havens

Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony. — Rumi

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell

Harmony in music quote A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same. — Wayne Dyer

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live. — William O. Douglas

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism. — Aldo Leopold

Perfect Harmony Quotes

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. — Muhammad Asad

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all. — Frederic Goudy

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world. — Annie Besant

Harmony in music quote People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise
People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony. — Coco Chanel

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. — Terry Pratchett

Harmony in music quote You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees. — Rudolf Hess

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. — Carl Sagan

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how. — Wayne Dyer

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation. — Thomas Cole

Harmonious Quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. — Mahatma Gandhi

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. — Rabindranath Tagore

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein

Harmony in music quote Music is the emotional life of most people.
Music is the emotional life of most people.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below — Bhagat Singh

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony. — Robert E. Lee

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them. — Adrian Frutiger

Harmony in music quote One good thing about music. When it hits you, you feel no pain.
One good thing about music. When it hits you, you feel no pain.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself — Maya Angelou

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. — Hudson Taylor

Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies, Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies: The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays; Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume. — Phillis Wheatley

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius

Living In Harmony Quotes

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach. — Le Corbusier

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. — Thomas Aquinas

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. - Chief Dan George

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. — Chief Dan George

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. - Jane Goodall

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. — Jane Goodall

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. — Claude Monet

The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind. — Enos Mills

When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs. — Marshall McLuhan

Inner Harmony Quotes

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. — Mary Baker Eddy

Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony. — Mooji

Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within. — Fritjof Capra

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. — Plato

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity. — Marilyn Ferguson

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend. — Ted Koppel

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. — Peace Pilgrim

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. — Peace Pilgrim

People Writing About Harmony In Music

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

30 1755
Read quotes by Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

56 2296
Read quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky
quotes on education, life and leadership

97 1172
Read quotes by Plutarch

Plutarch
quotes on sparta, education and leadership

392 3879
Read quotes by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Hazrat Inayat Khan

195 1705
Read quotes by Stephen Gaskin

Stephen Gaskin

10 191

More Harmony In Music Quotes

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life. — Charles Fillmore

When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you. — Billy Graham

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. — Vincent Van Gogh

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. — Ambrose Bierce

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony — James Whistler

I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony. — Mahan Esfahani

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. — Vincent Van Gogh

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony — William Shakespeare

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction. — Eva Burrows

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music. — Natalia Makarova

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition. — Henri Matisse

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon. — Tiesto

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops. — Louise Erdrich

Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new. — Hafez Nazeri

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. — Vincent Van Gogh

A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words. — KAORI

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society. — William Wordsworth

Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people. — Rebecca Goldstein

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it. — Marie Daulne

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

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony. — Anton du Beke

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms. — Leonardo da Vinci

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass. — Paul Zollo

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

In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the mathematical vibrations that the strings would play. So musical metaphors have been with us in science since the beginning. — Brian Greene

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of harmony in music quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about harmony in music to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of harmony in music quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage