Notes Quotes

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

The note of hallelujah must never be in short supply in the spirit of the believer.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

There are no wrong notes.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

This bank-note world.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note)

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.