Notes Quotes

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

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

When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

I love to hear the note sing.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists.

When I have interns, I always say, 'Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.' People remember that - not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

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)

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

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.

["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.