Timbre Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
— Erica Jong
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.
— Henri Matisse
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The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
— St. Jerome
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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
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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
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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
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Let me guess,†Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.†I just looked at…
— Sarah Dessen
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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
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„You,†the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called.…
— Gena Showalter
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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: