Notes Quotes

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

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've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.

When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Take notes. Everything is copy.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.