Quarter Tones

Famous quotes containing the words quarter and/or tones:

“A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)