Leading Tone

Famous quotes containing the words leading and/or tone:

“America is essentially a woman’s country—why shouldn’t the leading novelists be women?”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as “shiftless,” or “having a pauper spirit,” just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)