Notes Quotes · Page 39

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the…

— Geoff Dyer

This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks…

— Douglas Conant

To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear…

— Margaret Atwood

I would note that the scripture tells us, "you shall know them by their fruit." We see lots of "campaign conservatives." But…

— Ted Cruz

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into…

— Colin Greenwood

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes…

— Steve Vai

Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would…

— Eddie George

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can…

— Hans Zimmer

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care…

— Bryan Cranston

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and…

— Henry Purcell

There are notes between notes, you know.

— Sarah Vaughan

“I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away,…

— Sara Gruen

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting…

— Werner Herzog

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty…

— Octavia Spencer

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

— Luka Sulic

The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly…

— Steven Price

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

— Virginia Woolf

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and…

— Bill Vaughan

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be…

— Frank Smith

Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...…

— Michael Cunningham

Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

— The D.O.C