Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Willie Nelson

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

The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep.

Pamela Anderson

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Gabriel Mann

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

William Blake

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Renee Fleming

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

Sam Shepard

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

Thelonious Monk

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Thelonious Monk

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Nora Ephron

Take notes. Everything is copy.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

Steve Miller

I get many notes from hourly workers, a lot of them angry. And they say some unkind things about me,

Isaac Stern

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Jennifer Hudson

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

Jeff Bridges

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

Franz Kafka

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Jay Kay

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

Igor Stravinsky

Composers combine notes, that's all.

David Benioff

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.