Notes Quotes

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

If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa, and pay it off with your MasterCard!

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

There’s no such thing as a wrong note.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

The high note is not the only thing.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.