I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
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… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with… — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that… — Marc Myers Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own… — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon… — James Nares Copy Share Image
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde… — Linda Perhacs Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
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