Quotes About Tone

I can't hear rhythm.

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

it would seem almost impossible to argue that the biblical narrative is a calm, clear, and uncontentious text. Rather, the Scriptures reach our ears in an often ominous and scandalous tone. From the opening pages of this ancient text, we are confronted with a shocking series of ambiguous stories and complex conflicts that defy easy categorization and interpretation.

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of visual storytelling. It didn't necessarily have to move the plot forward, but it had to add tone or add to the overall feeling.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.

I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

My dad got into this group, Commission, with Fred Hammond, and that was my biggest gospel memory. I would hear that all the time, and listening to their voices helped me develop my voice because I would try to emulate them as a kid. It taught me tone, and it gave me a balance.

There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it.

Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I'm always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don't look at myself as a rapper.

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.