Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a… — Akhil Copy Share Image
I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments,… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter… — George Benson Copy Share Image
The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he… — Nancy Allen Copy Share Image
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if… — Christopher Parkening Copy Share Image
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
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