Notes Quotes
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You can try 10 different #4’s and each will sound different. A mouthpiece is just a thing that connects the musician to the horn. It has to fit just right. You can spend your entire life looking for the perfect mouthpiece. I know guys who do. It’s better to spend your time looking for the perfect notes.
Art Farmer
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Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined.
Claudio Arrau
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Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
Joe Satriani
Chickenfoot
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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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The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.
Steve Lukather
Toto
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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?
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.
Willy Ronis
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With Fred McDowell, I just love the way he articulates the notes. I'm hardly unique in that, but there's just something about that that I love.
Bill Orcutt
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
Bernie Brillstein
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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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The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
