Notes Quotes
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
Miles Davis
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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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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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
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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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You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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.
Al Di Meola
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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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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
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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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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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.
Tommy Bolin
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We Paverment were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Eric Mazur
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
Tommy Bolin
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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
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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.
Casey Abrams
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
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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.
Robin Trower Procol Harum
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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.
Virgil Thomson
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Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
Slash Guns N' Roses