Quarter Tones Quotes
- In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
- At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to… — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin