Was tonality out there – God-given? Or were those magic…

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all…

— Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships…

— Bertrand Russell

“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely…

— Lisa Bu

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals.…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical…

— Arto Lindsay

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum…

— Frederick Sommer

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the…

— Susan McClary

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

— Ramin Djawadi

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as…

— Alban Berg

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

— Paul Hindemith

There's the truth to every moment that you have to bring to every scene, but you have to understand the tonality of the film…

— Timothee Chalamet

In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested…

— John Maus

I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is…

— Anupriya Goenka

The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to…

— Anton Webern