Tone Quotes

• For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Mysterious
  • Telling

• I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fun
  • Tone
  • Eccentric

• Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the sound of his voice. Trey released my arm and shrugged, grinning. “I just wanted an oyster, and she wouldn’t serve me.” I opened my mouth to protest when the warm fingers holding my arm softly squeezed me for reassurance. So, I stayed quiet. “Jason, please escort your friend to the door. I have no other reason to speak with him unless Sadie has a bruise or any lasting marks from his hands, and then he will see me again.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Voice
  • Pray
  • Bruise

• A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

  

  Carlo Wolff
  • Writes
  • Texture
  • Flair

• in darkness and in hedges

  

  W. D. Snodgrass
  • Darkness
  • Loneliness
  • Tone

• I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Die
  • Trust
  • Said

• I'm a hopeless tone chaser!I love it and get into the whole thing.

  

  John Petrucci
  • Tone
  • Get Into
  • Chasers

• Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Way
  • Hurt
  • Poem

• Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

  

  Chris Bosh
  • Looks
  • Leader
  • Peers

• It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Green
  • Living
  • Tempo

• I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Made
  • Records
  • Knobs

• Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • People
  • Important Thing
  • Production design

• Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

  

  Caroline Llewellyn
  • Tone
  • Self-Righteous
  • Risers

• It is not an easy thing to do found the tone right away.

  

  Deborah Kaplan
  • Easy
  • Found
  • Tone

• Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Said
  • Shock
  • Delicious

• In short, Coltrane's tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Mean

• I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

  

  Annika Sorenstam
  • Important
  • Play
  • Tone

• You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Running
  • Expression
  • Tone

• English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Book
  • Get Away
  • Pathos

• The highest tone is hard to hear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hear
  • Tone

• From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Tone

• The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Fingers
  • Effects
  • Tone

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