Quotes About Tone

Music is organized sound.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

44. In meter singing is joined, and therefore there must be more care of the speech and tone, then in prose. 45. But the melody of singing is ordained for a certain spiritual delight, whereby the mind is detained in the meditation of the thing that is sung.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply from the cup of your own oracular majesty

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood.

Maybe the difference between speech and music isn't all that great. We infer a lot from the tone of someone's voice, so imagine that aspect of speech pushed just a little further. The weird cadences of a Valley girl, for instance, might be viewed as a species of singing. The malls of Sherman Oaks are a setting for a kind of massed choir.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theater. It is a theater, after all.

Do I shock you? We are very playful here. It's a good tone for an operating theatre. It is a theatre, after all.

In contrast to Genesis chapters 2 and 3, where the tone is more intimate, the context more homely, and the centre of attention is on human relationships,

But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I didn't intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that's just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days.