Quotes About Consonance

#1. The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Bernie Krause

#2. To me, ugliness, grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

Carrie Brownstein

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

Quincy Jones

#4. Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#5. In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.

Ilana Mercer

#7. 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.

Keith Jarrett

#8. There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony.

Oliver Sacks

#9. Three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.

Umberto Eco

#10. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.

Frederick Stanley Maude

#11. For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.
- William

Umberto Eco

#12. I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were bathing them in all kinds of dissonance, consonance, resonance, and things like that.

Charlemagne Palestine

#13. Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Ramana Maharshi

#14. Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#15. There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

Fyodor Tyutchev

#16. I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.

Christian Scott

#17. Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you've given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it's the first time they've internalized it.

David M. Cote

#18. I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

Michael Jordan

#19. When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

Daniela Pestova

#20. This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

Donna Leon

#21. Being an immigrant is not for sissies.

Helen Russell

#22. The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Napoleon Hill

#23. It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#24. Copyright Promotes Creativity by Proscribing the Right to Copy

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#25. Hatred makes us all ugly.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon