Quotes About Dissonance

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Forecasters who can't cope with the dissonance risk making the most serious possible forecasting error in a conflict: underestimating your opponent.

A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.

Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope.

Chapter Nine Dissonance in the Book of Psalms

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 like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale.

System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 maintains.

System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1

Why should jokes and metaphors give such pleasure? Because we can't stand very much ambiguity. Cognitive dissonance makes us uneasy, and for good reason-survival depends on making the world as predictable as possible. So when we figure something out, when we impose order on what seems chaotic, we heave a psychological sigh of relief.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.

Chaos to me is really important in music.

White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.

The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

My music is not lovely.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.