Best Consonance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Beauty Integrity Perfection Clarity Proportion Consonance Components Of Beauty Light And Colour

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“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.”

“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.”

Source: 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

“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.”

Thinking Writing Two Age Lines Party Keys Balance Profession Strikes Idiot Mediocrity Key To Success Cognitive Consonance Writing And Thinking

Author:Ilana Mercer

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

Feels Freedom Harmony Illusory Variance Consonance

Author:Fyodor Tyutchev

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

Should Community Prosperity Prosperous Consonance

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“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.”

Different Brain Aspect Harmony Rhythm Frequency Responding Intervals Dissonance Timbre Consonance

Author:Oliver Sacks

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

Inspirational Art Form Literature Position Disease Complexes Obstacles Dogma Catching Static Consonance

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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.”

Heart Stills Earth Sound Voice Simple Praise Harmony Charity Rewards Lifts Faithful Heavenly Multitudes Discord Consonance

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“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.”

Helping Beautiful Realizing Mystery Essence Harmony Beautiful Things Ugliness Essence Of Life Consonance

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“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.”

People Kind Jobs Sound Walking All Kinds Resonance Bathing Dissonance Consonance

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

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

Release Tension Dissonance Consonance

Author:Quincy Jones

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

Culture Party Class Policy Democratic Working Class Democratic Party Consonance

Author:David Brooks

“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.”

People Men Has Beens Law Wealth Cities Enemy Land Military Army Institutions Sacred Unjust Conqueror Baghdad Liberators Consonance

Author:Frederick Stanley Maude

“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.”

Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

“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.”

Ideas Age Spirit Difficult Wonder Impossible Becoming This Day Anarchy Worthless Consonance

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“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.”

“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.”

Way Needs Sound Natural Environment Conquer Fragile Torn Boundless Torn Apart Consonance

Author:Bernie Krause

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

Cities Enemy Land Army Iraq Usa Conqueror Enmity Liberators Consonance

Author:Frederick Stanley Maude

“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.”

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“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.”

Ifs Persons Long Enough Play Language Sound Aliens Dissonance Consonance

Author:Keith Jarrett