I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Alice Hoffman

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.
Ronnie Montrose

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
Tobe Hooper

I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
Dan Castellaneta

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.
Sue Wicks

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.
John Fogerty

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
George Ripley

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
Colin Greenwood

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
Donald Rumsfeld

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
Danny Elfman

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.
Kenneth Edmonds

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.
John Turturro

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.
Jay Roach

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
John Eaton

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
Lester Bangs