Dissonant Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I… — Randy Weston
As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer… — Luigi Russolo
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album… — Bill Milkowski
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes… — Daniel Dennett
No sound is dissonant which tells of life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind… — Brian Greene
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. — Alfred Jarry
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the… — Barack Obama
I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. — Petra Haden
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light,… — Jessye Norman
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from… — Alan Price

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