Calm Quote by Ralph Ellison

Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use…

— Chuck Israels

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

— Flannery O'Connor

It is not disrespectful or offensive to refuse to sing a song that espouses views with which you actively disagree; it is simply being…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I…

— Eric Whitacre

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.

— Mitski

Like fire and rain, (fire and rain) you can dirve me insane But i cant stay mad at you for anything, Were venus and…

— Anonymous

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the…

— George Eliot

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and…

— Eugene Chadbourne

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

— Orson Welles

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

— Tove Lo

I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel…

— Sue Perkins

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

— Tom Waits