Notes Quotes
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Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
Booker T. Jones Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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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”.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
Eugene Ormandy
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
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The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.
Francesca da Rimini
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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.
Joshua Foer
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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.
Stella Benson
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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.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
Michael Kinsley
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Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
William Henry Ashley
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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.
John Motson
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Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
Eydie Gorme
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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.
Judith Guest
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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.
Ted Nelson
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
Sarah Dessen
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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
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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.
Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
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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.
Norman McLaren
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I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
Brian Wilson
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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.
Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
Barbara Holland