Intonation Quotes
Intonation Quote of the day
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.
The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.
Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.
There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
