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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Light People Great Believe

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music Me Storm Down

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I Am People Way Never

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Ludwig van Beethoven

Me Words Heaven I Can

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Stress Training Body Exercise

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Terry Pratchett

You Mind Bicycle Fantasy

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Life I Am Experience My Life

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Light Shadow Thoughts I Am

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Light Shadow Colour Two

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Together Struggle Great Loved

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Best Music Book Thought

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Happiness Together Magic More

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

Pink Will Gray Prevail

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

Day Great Name Talking

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

Music Good Me Think

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Love Full Five Word

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

You Guitar Believe Feel

I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.

Love Black Earth Shades

I like kind of natural, woodsy earth tones. I like patchouli. I like tobacco. I like sandalwood. I like tree resin. I'm not a huge fan of citrus - I like things that are kind of moodier and... more deeper base notes.

Tree Earth Things Like

Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an instrument symbolic of modern European music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Sound Question Piano

When I was a child, the world of makeup was so different. There wasn't the wide range of shades available for darker skin tones like there is now.

Makeup World Child Skin

My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she'd created her ideal shade.

Me Mother Girl Shopping

I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

Change Colors Think Voice

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Education Children You Parents

Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!

You Amazing Pose Body

I'm honored people think enough of my playing to chase my sound. Hell, I chase other players' tones all the time.

Time People Hell Think

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