Grammar Quote by Frances Parkinson Keyes Download Open image “scales are the grammar of music.” — Frances Parkinson Keyes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grammar Music Scales
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. — James Galway Copy Share Image
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free… — Barry White Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. — Brian May Copy Share Image
“Music is all about the intervals, and if the set of intervals within a scale is different - even though the scales share the… — Nicolas Carter Copy Share Image
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble. — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
A compensation is something which does not quite compensate. — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved… — R.L. Trask Copy Share Image
I wish those red, squiggly spellcheck lines would show up when some people talk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image