Life mixes tones all the time.

- Alexander Payne

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

- James Purefoy

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 able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.

- Lawrence Weschler

One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.

- Marc Guggenheim

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

- Melissa Rosenberg

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

- Michael Azerrad

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

- Paul Hindemith

I think there are a lot of really funny things in 'The Descendants,' but there're a lot of different tones in that movie, in the same way that 'Transparent' has a lot of different tones.

- Rob Huebel

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.

- Savion Glover

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

- Stephen Fry