Notes Quotes · Page 3

There are no wrong notes.

— Miles Davis

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

— Eugene Ormandy

“Glancing at his notes”

— Peter James

There’s no such thing as a wrong note.

— Art Tatum

I played the wrong wrong notes.

— Thelonious Monk

Composers combine notes, that's all.

— Igor Stravinsky

Music is in the space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I try all night to play a pretty note.

— Jimi Hendrix

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

— Vince Gill

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

— John Lennon

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

— Hedy Lamarr

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

— Augusten Burroughs

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

— Renee Fleming

“Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.”

— Ella Leya

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

— Sara Zarr

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

— Jennifer Weiner

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

— Hans Rosling

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from…

— Ilona Andrews

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said,…

— Rick Riordan

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

— Danica McKellar

“Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.”

— Sting

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were…

— Jessica Mitford

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I…

— Valerie Simpson

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are…

— Jacqueline Winspear

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath…

— Terry Pratchett

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a…

— Conrad Aiken

Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do…

— Aaron Zigman

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other…

— John Irving

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t…

— Dennis Lehane

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn…

— Donald Fagen

In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?…

— Woody Shaw

When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there.…

— Marlo Morgan

Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer…

— Ennio Morricone

Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that…

— David Zindell

In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and…

— George Polya

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave…

— John Dryden

[Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and…

— Janet Evanovich

We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and…

— Bruce Willis