Notes Quotes

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The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution,… — Woody Guthrie
I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of… — Jimmy Page
Composers combine notes, that's all. — Igor Stravinsky
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble. — Jennifer Weiner
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig van Beethoven
If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic.… — Vera Stanley Alder
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. — Edward Gardner
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. — Gustav Mahler
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day… — Coleman Hawkins
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes. — Pablo Casals
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Frederick Corder
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. — Thomas Beecham
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few… — Steffi Graf
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be â€” though possibly a colored canvas and… — Oswald Spengler
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. — Thomas A. Edison
Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this… — Tom Peters
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one ..… — Ritchie Blackmore

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