Genius Quote by Igor Stravinsky

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

— Willie Nelson

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and…

— Stanley Crouch

I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that out, I…

— James Ingram

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal,…

— Chilly Gonzales

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

— Mos Def

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for…

— David Luiz

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if…

— Brian Eno

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

— Mick Jagger

Arriving at a simple piece of music is a very difficult balance because, in being simple, you could easily be banal, so maybe it's…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

— Robert Plant

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

— Tom Lehrer

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

— Sun Tzu