Dissonance

About Dissonance

“To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the composer and his audience. This love affair is a tripartite thing.”
— Samuel Adler, Quoted from an interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1991)
“Improvise like a composer; compose like an improviser.”
— Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2018)
“Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. What remains? ...perhaps what we learn is not the music itself but a way of hearing it.”
— Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
“[S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.”
— Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944).
“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I. 1.
“Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you'll enjoy the playing more.”
— Ravi Shankar tuning up before his performance on Sitar, Soundbite of "The Concert For Bangladesh"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.