Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

I can sing; I can hold a tune.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

I can hold a tune but it's a bit ropey.

I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.

On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

A lot of inspiration comes from the sounds that we are attracted to when we come across them in our experiments and may lead us into a certain direction because of inherent possibilities we hear in them.