Notes Quotes
1528 quotes by 1208 authors
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You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like…
— Todd Rundgren
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To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form…
— Fanny Kemble
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Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
— Eydie Gorme
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Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem…
— Mark Crispin Miller
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I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which…
— Donald Fagen
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In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I…
— Woody Shaw
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Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry, be happy.
— Bobby McFerrin
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Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
— Danny Wallace
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When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started…
— Boman Irani
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The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus…
— James A. Garfield
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The…
— John Dryden
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The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.
— John Dryden
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Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
— John Carmack
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The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.
— Sarah McCoy
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Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his…
— Trevor Hall
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is…
— Bill Vaughan
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
— Bill Vaughan
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Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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