Tone Deaf Quotes

“I’m not even tone deaf, that’s the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
I’M NOT EVEN TONE FUCKING DEAF. I’m tone DUMB.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“ 'I've been privileged to occasionally hear you sing in the shower and thought--what a voice. With a reasonable amount of training, it might actually be a voice I could listen to for more than a few minutes without getting a migraine.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Anyway, she thinks we're going to be all right. Like she says, a positive attitude is ninety-seven percent of the battle."

This is so astonishingly self-absorbed, in the face of our impending deaths, that I don't even know how to respond.

Maysilee, on the other hand, doesn't miss a beat. "I'll try to keep that in mind in the arena. More ice cream?”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping