Notes Quotes
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Ben Espey sat at his desk and looked over his notes.
M. William Phelps -
When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
Shailene Woodley -
I have to keep reminding my students, asking them, "What is your experience of listening to this? Don't tell me about the notes you see on the page, tell me about what you hear.
James Tenney -
I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy -
Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.
Winston Grime -
I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.
Arthur Cleveland Bent -
We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.
Nancy Wilson Heart -
We read in a press release that there were suicide notes. No one has called us about those suicide notes. We don't know what those notes say.
Aaron Hernandez -
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
Virgil Thomson -
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not into the computer technology - you can say that quite safely.
John Motson
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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
Herbie Hancock -
An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
Renee Fleming -
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.
Gary Bartz -
Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
Lao Tzu -
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
Sarah Dessen
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I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.
Willy Ronis -
The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.
Steve Lukather Toto -
You can try 10 different #4’s and each will sound different. A mouthpiece is just a thing that connects the musician to the horn. It has to fit just right. You can spend your entire life looking for the perfect mouthpiece. I know guys who do. It’s better to spend your time looking for the perfect notes.
Art Farmer -
Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined.
Claudio Arrau