“Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.” Life IsHarmonyProfoundVicesDesertSandUnpredictableShiftingVice VersaEsotericDissonanceErraticShifting SandSand Dunes Author:Ella Leya
“In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.” MenDreamPurposeSoundSourceToolsRelationHarmonyNoiseCodeMelodyDissonanceClamour Book:Noise: The Political Economy of Music Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.” IfsThinkingLittlesMadeMomentsLastsBeautifulWaitingClearLateBlindCloudsDustToo LateCherishFar AwayDeafDissonance Author:Thomas Carlyle
“I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.” ThinkingI CanDown AndMelodyMake You ThinkDissonance Author:Eugene Chadbourne
“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.” IfsPersonsLongEnoughPlayLanguageSoundAliensDissonanceConsonance Author:Keith Jarrett