Notes Quotes
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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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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
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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've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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.
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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
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I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
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The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.
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Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.
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We Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
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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.
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I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
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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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There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
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When something good hits me, I'll use Siri to make a note so I don't forget.
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All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.
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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.
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Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
