Notes Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

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

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

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.

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.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Send her a quick note while you're stuck in a long meeting. A lighthearted chat definitely makes the time go faster.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

There is nothing to be done. Just make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind.

I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.