Top 77 Tonal Quotes
#1. No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.
Terry Teachout
#2. As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.
Al Michaels
#3. What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.
Edward Norton
#4. The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.
Frederick Lenz
#5. I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?
Frederick Lenz
#6. What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#7. The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
John Burnside
#8. I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
Gavin Bryars
#9. I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
Dan Fogelberg
#11. In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
Frederick Lenz
#12. When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.
Frederick Lenz
#13. I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series.
Leonard Bernstein
#14. Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#17. I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.
Chang-rae Lee
#18. There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony.
Oliver Sacks
#19. The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.
Frederick Lenz
#20. You see more and more why healing is happening through music.
It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration
Kenneth G. Mills
#22. An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.
Thomas S. Buechner
#23. If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.
Ken Rockwell
#24. You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don't worry about it.
Matt Haig
#25. A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
Al Pacino
#27. The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.
Frederick Lenz
#28. When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.
Frederick Lenz
#29. The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#30. My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.
Melissa Rosenberg
#31. There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars
#33. Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.
Paul Lansky
#34. As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#35. When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Each of your excursions is balanced by the strengthening of the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#37. If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#38. The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.
Frederick Lenz
#39. The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order.
Frederick Lenz
#40. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#41. What an odd thing it is to see an entire species
billions of people
playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music.' (
The Overlords, from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End)
Oliver Sacks
#42. The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.
Frederick Lenz
#43. The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.
Frederick Lenz
#44. You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.
Frederick Lenz
#45. The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
John Corigliano
#47. It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
David Gilmour
#48. I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.
Bill Luff
#49. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..
Ansel Adams
#50. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.
Ted Nugent
#51. Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#53. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.
Matt Nix
#54. The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.
Frederick Lenz
#55. In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.
Nina Jacobson
#56. The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.
Jonathan Tropper
#57. Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
Hans Hofmann
#58. If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.
Frederick Lenz
#59. In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
#60. The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.
Frederick Lenz
#61. As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.
Frederick Lenz
#63. For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them ... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.
Jonathan Levine
#64. Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.
Paul Lansky
#65. In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#66. As long as you fight the system, all of the things that are part of the tonal of the times, then you will be imbalanced and will not do well in the other levels of attention.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
Frederick Lenz
#68. I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.
Woody Shaw
#69. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.
William Boyd
#70. You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
Frederick Lenz
#71. The nagual doesn't give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
#72. I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.
Billy Collins
#73. Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.
Jim Lee
#75. You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.
Frederick Lenz
#76. When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.
Nina Jacobson
#77. When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
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