Notes Quotes · Page 81

James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an…

— Dan Aykroyd

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an…

— Dan Ariely

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

— Daphne Guinness

Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly…

— Declan Lynch

My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make…

— Debbie Macomber

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

— Donald Fagen

Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten…

— Ilona Andrews

So I guess that the next time I make a date with a concussed guy, I should pin a note to his…

— Jill Shalvis

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

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

— Evelyn Underhill

Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so…

— Wolfgang Puck

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural…

— Oscar Peterson

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no -…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

— Muddy Waters

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

— Gerhard Richter

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You…

— Jerry Garcia

One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything…

— Rob Zombie

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

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

— Danny Wallace

Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.…

— Aldous Huxley

The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

— Thomas Gray

I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not…

— Martin Schulz

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

— William Shakespeare

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have…

— Gilbert Gottfried