Tones Quotes

156 quotes by 138 authors

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul. — Michael Treanor
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now… — Henri Bergson
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition… — Igor Stravinsky
There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully. — Paul Hindemith
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility… — Hector Berlioz
Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its… — Raoul Dufy
Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tonesâ€¦it will always stay blue. — Raoul Dufy
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound.… — Johnny Winter
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency… — Claude Monet
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
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
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its… — Annea Lockwood
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones,… — Elizabeth McCracken
When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse… — David Eagleman
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in… — Robert Frost

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