Notes Quotes
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
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The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.
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A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
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I'll note you in my book of memory.
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You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
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The Bohr atom was introduced to us by Bohr himself. I still have the notes I took during his lectures … His discourse was rendered almost incomprehensible by his accent; there were endless references to what I recorded as “soup groups”, only later emended to “sub-groups”.
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I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
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I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
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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.
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I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
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A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.
