Quotes About Intonation

#1. Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.

Liane Moriarty

#2. Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

Michael Ayrton

#3. You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Henry Irving

#4. I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

Lucinda Williams

#5. The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

John Patitucci

#6. The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

Pierre Boulez

#7. Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.

Eugene Ormandy

#8. What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them,

Val McDermid

#9. There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

Arca

#10. I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

Dan Hill

#11. Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Edmond De Goncourt

#12. Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Ruggiero Ricci

#13. Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.

Howard Mittelmark

#14. She had a way of speaking that eschewed intonation. It was a leveler, making the ordinary seem extraordinary and vice versa.

Kate Morton

#15. She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as though it was a piece of urban Gregorian chant, Where have you been?

Anna Quindlen

#16. You really need to work on intonation when you use sarcasm. That way people will know when you're being an asshole.

Samantha Young

#17. Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

Jack White

#18. The United States of America is more than just an ally,' Brandhaug began with an imperceptible smile. He said it with the same intonation that you use to explain to a non-Norwegian that Norway has a king and that the capital is Oslo.

Jo Nesbo

#19. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Stan Getz

#20. I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head ... and having it appear quite effortless.

Tony Bennett

#21. She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: 'Where's Loo-ka?', just like Audrey Hepburn saying, 'Take the pic-ture,' in Funny Face.

Adam Gopnik

#22. I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

Erland Josephson

#23. A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

Wendell Pierce

#24. If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#25. I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write ... This is a true freestyle in general. I put a beat, I said some stuff, I retain ideas, I do it again, with a particular intonation, I test, and especially I record live.

Young Thug

#26. On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

Leopold Stokowski

#27. Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

Theodor Adorno

#29. There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Lara St. John

#30. If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy.

Dwight L. Moody

#31. The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

Sarah Dessen

#33. For me, everything definitely comes from music.

Mike Myers

#34. Pray humbly.
Pray happily.
Pray hopefully.
Pray habitually.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.

Vera Nazarian

#36. Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Jim Rohn

#37. I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.

Tony Blair

#38. Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

Ted Nugent

#39. The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Emma Goldman

#40. Acting is a bit like tennis in that you can't really do it on your own.

Tom Hiddleston

#41. don't mistake
salt for sugar
if he wants to
be with you
he will
it's that simple

Rupi Kaur

#42. I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

Ellen Bass