Force Quote by Paul Hindemith

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

— Frederick Lenz

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

— Tim O'Brien

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the…

— Susan McClary

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum…

— Frederick Sommer

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as…

— Alban Berg

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of…

— Paul Gauguin

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

— Kenneth Burke

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Banality is sometimes striking.

— Marguerite Duras

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does…

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words

— Charlotte Rampling

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.

— Clark Coolidge