harmonies quotes

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
  Paul et Virginie.

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in historya plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. Those harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another, as wave follows upon wave; only one real fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations.Only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

- H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens) Fisher
  History of Europe, introduction.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

- Paul Gauguin
  Letter to Emile Schuffenecker.

Now, our music is universal. It shares the rhythmic content of African music, music of the Western Hemisphere and various lands of the East, and has merged this rhythm with European harmonies, the soul of the slaves, the blues, and the spirituals to create jazz.

- Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie
  Dizzy ^ To Be Or Not To Bop (with  Al Fraser),'Evolutions'.

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.57^61.

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.

-Tennyson
  'Milton: Alcaics', l.1^4.