NOTES Quotes - page 2

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. (Tina Turner)
There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work. View quote
Louis C.K.
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and – to perfect it. View quote
Max Beckmann
All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time. View quote
John Ruskin
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they're all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. View quote
Vladimir Horowitz
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. View quote
Ornette Coleman
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. View quote
Jon Stewart
After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon. View quote
Arthur Sullivan
The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers. View quote
John Dryden
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. (Artur Schnabel)
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. View quote
Glenn Gould
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. View quote
Maria Mitchell
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. View quote
Pete Seeger
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature - swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song. View quote
Roger Zelazny
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think. View quote
Saki
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more. View quote
Thomas Browne
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears. View quote
John Gay
Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony. (Abraham Cowley)
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. View quote
John Muir
I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A. M. View quote
Ryan Adams
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on. View quote
Charles Fort
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson