What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched.… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
