Top 25 Harmonic Quotes

In this post, you will find great Harmonic Quotes from famous people, such as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dimebag Darrell, Ry Cooder, Stanley Clarke. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I’ve been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I’ve found you‘ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

John Coltrane

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That’s when I was born.

Charlie Parker

To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.

Dimebag Darrell

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.

Dimebag Darrell

A microphone has a certain range. It’s not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that’s a good sound.

Ry Cooder

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.

Darren Criss

Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.

Walter Becker

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that’s where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Herbie Hancock

My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he‘s kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don’t know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is.

Synyster Gates

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I’m finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

Paul Gilbert

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I’m not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Paul Simon

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I’m finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.

Paul Gilbert

To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.

Dimebag Darrell

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.

Dimebag Darrell

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That’s when I was born.

Charlie Parker

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.

Darren Criss

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Vitruvius

Ry Cooder

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I’m not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Paul Simon

Herbie Hancock

I’ve been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I’ve found you‘ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

John Coltrane

Top 25 Harmonic Quotes

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