Harmonic Balance Quotes

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than playing with two guitar players, two trumpets, or two anythings.

I guess I like minor chords better than major ones, in general.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!