Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.
When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.
It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed
Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.
I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.
Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.
We've got to realize there's something bigger than who is in the White House. And that is the spirit of camaraderie and peace that keeps our nation together.
For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.
It’s always easy to see the unity from the outside.
The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.
If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.
