Notes Quotes

[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

He listens well who takes notes.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

When I'm singing at the piano and I'm having a really nice fun day singing, if I have a headache, the headache will immediately dissipate just the notes going through my head.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.