Quotes About Dissonance

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we overlabor; our outlook never really urban, never rural either, we enlarge and linger at the same time, as Alice both changed and remained in her story.

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

The Sky A Silver the sky a silver dissonance by the correct fingers of April resolved into a clutter of trite jewels now like a moth with stumbling wings flutters and flops along the grass collides with trees and houses and finally, butts into the river

Tragedy belongs to the poets. Only they have "trod the sunlit heights and from life's dissonance struck one clear chord." None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry, and if poetry is true knowledge and the great poets guides safe to follow, this transmutation has arresting implications. Pain changed into

Creo que la melancolía es, en suma, un problema musical: una disonancia, un ritmo trastornado. Mientras afuera todo sucede con un ritmo vertiginoso de cascada, adentro hay una lentitud exhausta de gota de agua cayendo de tanto en tanto.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.

He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert.

And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife.

How sour sweet music isWhen time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

Every once in a while I feel that I am at two with the universe.

How little do the lips and heart agree! How joyfully do people break their word! We both are strangers in a foreign land.

Even nature is concerned, for it leads us to choose the third as the sole consonance which may makeup for the harshness of the dissonance. The third despite its imperfection becomes the sole object of our desire after a dissonance and gives new charm to the perfect chord. It is for this reason that the rule for resolving

It's such a dissonant name. Brid-get. Brid-get. Brigitbrigitbrigit. It almost sounds like a birdcall. One of those irritating birds that live in bushes and chirp repetitiously and ruin ones picnic. Not that I go on many picnics. Brigitbrigitbrigit.