Anywhere Quote by Lara St. John

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

— Allan Holdsworth

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a…

— Steve Albini

“Music is all about the intervals, and if the set of intervals within a scale is different - even though the scales share the…

— Nicolas Carter

The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But…

— Steven Strogatz

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

— James Galway

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

— Lakshmi Mittal

A scale is just the notes that are in a chord played one at a time instead of together. That's what has allowed me…

— Paul Gilbert

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings…

— Antony Gormley

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

— Massimo Vignelli

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was…

— Ron Eglash