Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
