Quotes About Dissonance

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

I suppose it's possible that to the assembled vampires, werebeasts, demons, and assorted other creatures, the band's music was pleasing, even soothing, but to my zombie ears, it sounded like a dozen vehicles colliding head-on at a hundred miles an hour… over and over and over.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

By? dobrym, to znaczy by? w harmonii z samym sob?. Dysonans to w tym przypadku przymus pozostania w harmonii z innymi.

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just--clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich. That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream? Of course I was the cream. Sha.--Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)

It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live

In no way had my mother with her air of gentility and fine breeding prepared me for the Ida Skimberrys of the world.

incongruities

Cuando el líder no sabe empatizar ni interpretar adecuadamente las emociones ajenas genera disonancia y

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.

Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.

The existence of dissonance, being psychologically uncomfortable, will motivate the person to try to reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance. 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.

The maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

The choir are screaming now, fugue-permutations veering and careening to the outer limits of the field where any ratio of intervals or pitches might hold sway: tonics swapping with subdominants within the space of single notes that seem to play out in three octaves all at once, false entries, inversions, retrogrades and diminutions running riot through all keys -- until, suddenly, these fall away, like clouds

Marbled with static like gristly meat.

But there's also all this meaning in there, you know? All this human emotion. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. He makes it all so clear." "Like a story," Adam says. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. "Yes," Callum says. "Like a story. You get it.

Why matrix organizational structures became so popular I'm not really sure. There is certainly an element of flexibility and collaboration suggested by them, but in reality they are forums for confusion and conflict. They have certainly not contributed to the breakdown of silos; they've merely added an element of schizophrenia and cognitive dissonance for employees who are unlucky enough to report into two different silos.