Dissonance Quotes

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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I… — Madeleine Albright
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of… — Sonia Delaunay
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance. — Mark Thomas
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform… — Alan Bullock
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances… — Corinne Heline
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. — Eric Sevareid
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition… — Igor Stravinsky
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love — Ruth St. Denis
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to… — Chuck Israels
Finding beauty in the dissonance — Maynard James Keenan
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance. — Leon Festinger
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the… — Mark Vonnegut
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would… — Eric Whitacre
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music.… — Sergei Prokofiev
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya

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