#harmony

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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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

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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Truth is inner harmony. ↗

— Walther Rathenau

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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

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