Notes Quotes
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
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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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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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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
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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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Ben Espey sat at his desk and looked over his notes.
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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.
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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 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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The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
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A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
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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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The few remaining truths are graffiti, suicide notes, shopping lists.
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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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Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
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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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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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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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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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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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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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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.
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If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
