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 it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head. . . [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle. . . and only the labor of writing it down remains. . . I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.
I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says. " No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks just as many questions as Galem. " "I'm sorry," Oliver said weakly. The old woman nodded. "You are forgiven," she pronounced in a queenly tones.
If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring of original music that I was planning on composing. The decision was mostly predicated on knowing how time consuming the editing of dialogue can be and given the various locations we shot in, I didn't want to worry about having to mix room tones in such a short amount of time.
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.
When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. We have never - our campaign does not believe and never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything. I would hope that Mr. Trump tones it down big time.