Consonance Quotes

• When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Nature, Attention

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.

  Frederick Stanley Maude

  Army, Land, Cities

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• 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

  Freedom, Harmony, Feels

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• Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Vocabulary, Light, Perfect

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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

  Quincy Jones

  Release, Dissonance, Tension

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• The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
  internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
  there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Journey, Hiking

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

  David Brooks

  Party, Class, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Play, Long, Sound

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• 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

  Party, Writing, Thinking

  "National Review Eunuchs". www.wnd.com. April 12, 2012.

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• 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

  Brain, Different, Harmony

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Sound

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.

  Lamar Boschman

  Expression, Design, Soul

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• To me, that ugliness, that 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

  Beautiful, Essence, Helping

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• 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

  Community, Prosperity, Should

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• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Reality

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• 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

  Sound, Needs, Torn Apart

  "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.

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• 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

  Heart, Simple, Voice

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

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophical, Character, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists”, p.61, e-artnow

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• 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

  Military, Army, Men

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• 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

  Ideas, Age, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.

  Chuck Israels

  Music, Drama, Gun

  "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

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