Timbre Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong
I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many… — Neil Sedaka
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring… — Katherine Howe
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought… — Thomas Hampson
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties… — Josiah Bartlett
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy… — Marc Myers
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to… — Pete Seeger
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an… — Karlheinz Stockhausen
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. — Henri Matisse
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented. — St. Jerome
I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history.… — Greil Marcus
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 able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
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 the neck and… — Kathi Appelt
Let me guess,â€ Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. â€œDrinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.â€ I just looked at… — Sarah Dessen
I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips… — Maggie Stiefvater
â€žYou,â€ the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. â€žNew guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called.… — Gena Showalter
There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others… — Audre Lorde

Who Wrote These Timbre Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 23 Timbre Quotes as follows: