Notes Quotes

Notes Quote of the day

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Music is the space between the notes.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

The longest suicide note in history.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

There are notes between notes, you know.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

Never lose the groove to find a note.

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.