Quotes About Tone

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I do love a good atmospheric soundtrack, me.

The way you speak and your tone of voice must be pleasing.

It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.

These were the days before I decided to climb up the mountain, speak slowly and in a priestly tone, and try shaming people rather than insulting them.

Is it A-flat or G-sharp?

Yes, she said, I . . .seek and answer to the burning question: Is it A-flat or G-sharp? And one of the others said, Don't even get me started!

Every song has a mood, a situation and a different kind of score.

But the change in tone also reflects a change in the zeitgeist between 2013 and 2016. In 2013, the relatively few people who were paying attention to big data often imagined themselves to be the carpenters; by 2016, many of us had realized that we were nails.

The story' Sanders would say the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it. Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow or fast, funny or sad. All these disgressions, they just screw up your story's sound. Stick to what happened.

Mothertongue frowned at Duffy's tone. "There are matters awaiting my decisions," he admitted. "But you're not to give these men alcohol; they're clean-living Christians Ã¢â'¬Â¦ underneath it all." "Of course they are." A cask of beer was carried out a minute or so after Mothertongue's exit, and Duffy filled twenty-two mugs. "Drink up, now, you clean-living Christians," he told the northmen, unnecessarily.

His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.

Timothy was already there, his hands clasped together on the table like he was ready to pray or like he was your boss and was really sorry but he was going to have to fire you.

Oh, that's effective," Sin said sarcastically.

The manual is written in an authoritative tone as if it were the voice of God revealing indisputable truths, but in fact it fails to teach its readers a core principle of scientific thinking: the importance of examining and ruling out other possible explanations for a person's behavior before deciding which one is the most likely.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour.

Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...

'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.

I got the type of voice where I can hit a tone if I want, but I ain't trying to be Fetty Wap or Future.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.