NOTES Quotes

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. (Frédéric Chopin)
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. View quote
Joan Miró
He listens well who takes notes. View quote
Dante Alighieri
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. View quote
Robert Frost
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. View quote
Artur Schnabel
There are notes between notes, you know. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
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. View quote
Eduard Hanslick
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. View quote
Vitruvius
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. View quote
Plutarch
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. (Charlie Parker)
The piano ain't got no wrong notes. View quote
Thelonious Monk
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
Alexander Pope
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. View quote
Maya Angelou
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
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. View quote
William Blake
Music is in the space between the notes. View quote
Claude Debussy
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. View quote
Giuseppe Verdi
One who in accordance with these notes will take pains in selecting his method of construction, may count upon having something that will last. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. (Bruce Beresford)
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. View quote
Christine Baranski
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. View quote
Hugh Leonard
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. View quote
Frédéric Chopin