Notes Quotes · Page 25

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more…

— Joan Didion

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

— Brian Eno

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

— Eydie Gorme

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks…

— Eduard Hanslick

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

— Anonymous

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

— Samuel Beckett

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

— Jacob Burckhardt

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games,…

— Steve Sabol

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called…

— Thomas S. Monson

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in…

— Patrick Stump

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a…

— Stephen Malkmus

I picked up the phone to call the police, but then I considered how it would sound when I told them that…

— Jenny Lawson

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to…

— Pete Townshend

Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the…

— Douglas Adams

Remember the first debate between [Mitt] Romney and [Barack] Obama? Let's revisit it for a second. It's interesting to note the way…

— Rush Limbaugh

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is…

— Eugene Delacroix

From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is…

— Meredith Willson

I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where…

— Pope John Paul II

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world…

— Maya Angelou

Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid.…

— Ben Harper

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of…

— Barry Goldwater

I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall…

— Hans Zimmer

Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to…

— B. C. Forbes

If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in…

— Jon McGregor

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always…

— Kumail Nanjiani

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years -…

— Ozzy Osbourne

The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and…

— Sun Ra

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

— Don Gonyea

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do,…

— Hudson Taylor

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

— Jeff Kinney

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”

— Suzy Kassem

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known…

— Robert Palmer

Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a…

— Elliott Hundley

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that…

— Oswald Chambers

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes…

— Domhnall Gleeson

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

— Josh Peck