This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance. — Tool 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
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background,… — Charles Stross 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
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
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
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy,… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the… — Joy Harjo 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
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
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous 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
“Dissonance theory also exploded the self-flattering idea that we humans, being Homo sapiens, process information logically. On the contrary: If the new… — Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
“Even nature is concerned, for it leads us to choose the third as the sole consonance which may makeup for the harshness… — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“It is not that branches of knowledge fight with one another, not poetry with anatomy, but fallacies, i.e., people. When a man… — Anton Chekhov 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
Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window,… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Fast-moving views are not likely to be strongly held views. Instead, they're much more likely to be about people mirroring back the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson 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
“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
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
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
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
