"I wish I finished music school, because then……" — Petra Haden

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• At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say… — Randy Weston
• As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear.… — Luigi Russolo
• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New… — Bill Milkowski
• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing… — 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;… — 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,… — Barack Obama
• I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do… — Jessye Norman
• The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas -… — Alan Price

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