Tone Quotes

The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.

I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

I can easily set my tone.

I think tone gives birth to the story.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

Always the tone of surpise.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

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

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.

I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.