Dissonance Quotes

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance. - Tool

If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of. - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? - Charles Ives

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty. - Madeleine Albright

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. - Eric Sevareid

I believe that my newly completed symphony will show the world that atonality and ugly dissonance at the price of giving up inspiration, form, expression, melody and beauty will result in ultimate disaster for the art of music. - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. - Ruth St. Denis

And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. - John Milton