Quadratic Difference Tones

Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or tones:

“I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty—this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)