Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

— Duke Ellington

I started with very tonal 19th-century music because I wanted to be a violinist as a child. So this was my first music, and…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

— Frederick Lenz

The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the…

— Frederick Lenz

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal"…

— Bela Bartok

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are…

— Carlos Castaneda

The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order.

— Frederick Lenz

Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that…

— Paul Lansky

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists…

— Nina Jacobson

The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.

— Frederick Lenz

I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.

— Woody Shaw

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

— Elijah Wood

When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

— Frederick Lenz

The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.

— Frederick Lenz

The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go…

— Frederick Lenz