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“Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.”

Littles Running Sun Sweet Singing Tone Brooks Soothing Pebbles

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims

“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”

Made Stills Soul Used Culture Force Sound Animal Heard Sacrifice Music Is Singing Instruments Musical Woods Tone Musical Instruments Generator

Author:Joscelyn Godwin

“Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."”

Ifs Song Speak Singing Tone Deaf

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.”

Ifs Way Used My Own Wonder Listening Mom Comfortable Singing Instruments My Mom Tone

Author:Ne-Yo

“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.”

Writing Trying Self Wanted School Song Voice Perspective Singing High School Intention Pops Tone Punk Emulate Dichotomy

Author:Laura Benanti

“When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.”

Knows School Voice Realizing Class Cry New York Students College Singing Performances Moved Wings Theatre Tone Juniors

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.”

Ifs Knows Song Voice Fame Singing Ears Tone Deaf Singing Songs

Author:Dominic Balli

“(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.”

“That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.”

Ifs Should Mean Persons Said Young Grows Sound Teacher Singing Jazz Singers Tendencies Tone Tunes Flats

Author:Charles Mingus