Notes Quotes · Page 8

I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.

— Joe Bonamassa

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

— Miles Davis

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

— Anonymous

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

— Jay Kay

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

— Eddie Van Halen

You've got to know what goes between the notes.

— Jimi Hendrix

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

— Alex Kapranos

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

— Count Basie

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

— Alfred de Musset

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

— Action Bronson

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of…

— Mark Twain

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

— Pete Seeger

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

— Patricia Briggs

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

— Allen Iverson

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the…

— Jimi Hendrix

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

— David Steinberg

I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a…

— Cary Fukunaga

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease…

— Rick Riordan

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

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a…

— Warren Buffett

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape…

— Alicia Ostriker

A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe…

— Luis Marden

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock…

— John Milton

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to…

— Colleen McCullough

Darius didn't have any trouble finding the Street Cats building. It was a cozy-looking square brick building with big front windows crowded…

— Anonymous

Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done…

— Tom Peters

Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once…

— Cassandra Clare

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs…

— Paul Rand

One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…

— Jeff Cooper

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses.…

— Joni Mitchell

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape…

— Janet Fitch

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.

— William Carlos Williams

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

— Dan Harmon

Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.

— Norm MacDonald

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

— Honore de Balzac

Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

— Jonah Hill

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

— Eric Morecambe

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

— Gabriel Mann