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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness ... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.
The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
I didn't like his tone. In fact I didn't like boys' tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.
What is said is given out to suit the temperament of the hearers
Sincere heart, quiet soul.
A tone can't be off-key. A tone isn't off- key until it is set alongside other tones. - Harry Hole
The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.
When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it."
Tone?'
The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow or fast, funny or sad. All these disgressions, they just screw up your story's sound. Stick to what happened.
If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.
Always the tone of surprise.
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.
The strongest words can be said in the softest voices and still be resonant.
An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
The simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice,
Shut up!" Joe's tone was ugly. "If you ain't willing to try, you can go to hell.
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.
There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.
The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.
You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.
Scarlet ... " Silas begins in a serious tone. He started using "the tone" when we were kids to remind me that he's older than I am. It annoys me just as much now as it did then, only now it's less acceptable for me to push him into the mud for it.
The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!
Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.
What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity.
Quiet is the new loud.
Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.
Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.
Strive for excellence, rather than perfection, and the audience may so enjoy your beautiful, expressive tone that they will readily forgive a few stray notes.
The main thing was finding this ... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.
Communication, communication.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Listen like every sentence matters; talk like every word counts.
Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity.
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it ... its appeal is permanent.
The medium is the message.
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
Make passionate my sense of hearing.
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
No, Mom. I said fine."
"It's just your tone."
Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
in a whisper so quiet I barely hear it, so loud it makes the earth tremble at my feet.
There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.
Speak the essence and live by it.
They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
humble self- confidence.
To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.
Silence, beautiful voice.
March out of the common line; make bold steps ahead and dance to the tune of a sweeter, better and nicer tone of your own music. March out of the tiny box!
The tone and success of your tomorrow is determined by the tone and determination of your today.
Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.
Yeah, about that. I'm going to need considerable training before I jump when you use that tone with me.
I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.
Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.
More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.
Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you.
Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.
Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.
Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.
I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing / you are not being
heard / noticed only
by others / not heard
for the same reason.
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.
An informal tone can ignore some grammar rules, crack jokes, and generally allows more creative freedom. When you need to come across as more friendly and likable, adopt a more informal tone. Brands that are specifically targeting Generation Y often take this approach.
The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.