There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full…

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different…

— Oliver Sacks

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a…

— Bernie Krause

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

— Ramana Maharshi

Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to…

— Ilana Mercer

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a…

— Douglas MacArthur

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the…

— Igor Stravinsky

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the…

— Carrie Brownstein

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results,…

— Lamar Boschman

“Even nature is concerned, for it leads us to choose the third as the sole consonance which may makeup for the harshness of the…

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less…

— Keith Jarrett

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

— David Brooks

“Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were…

— Charlemagne Palestine

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a…

— Rebecca Solnit