Timbre, baby, timbre.

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.…

— Jonny Greenwood

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet…

— Pete Seeger

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old…

— James Nares

There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency…

— Bruce Molsky

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by…

— Katherine Howe

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to…

— Michel Chion

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and…

— Marc Myers

To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional…

— Andy Kim

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room…

— Don Henley

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different…

— Oliver Sacks

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The…

— Joseph Brodsky

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about…

— Cornel West