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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
-- Ace Frehley -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-- Adam Hochschild -
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
-- Alan Bennett -
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
-- Albert Camus -
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
-- Alex Kapranos -
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
-- Alfred Austin -
Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.
-- Ally Carter -
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
-- Anne Boyd -
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
-- Anne Hathaway -
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
-- Anne Roiphe -
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
-- Artur Schnabel -
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
-- Artur Schnabel -
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
-- Artur Schnabel -
There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Boys everywhere take note: That was a kiss.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
-- Ben Horowitz -
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
-- Bernadette Peters -
High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.
-- Big Sean -
There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
-- Bruce Bennett -
There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
-- Carrie Snodgress -
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.
-- Christy Mathewson -
When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes....
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
-- Claude Debussy -
I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.
-- Concha Buika -
I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
-- Corey Reynolds -
Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
-- Dane Cook -
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
-- Danny Wallace -
David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard
-- Dave Mustaine -
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.
-- David Benioff -
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
-- David Foster -
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
-- David Korten -
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
-- David Livingstone -
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
-- David Rockefeller -
This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.
-- Deena Metzger -
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.
-- Dianne Wiest -
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
-- Don Mattingly -
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
-- Dorothy Malone -
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
-- Ethel Merman -
Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.
-- Eydie Gorme -
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.
-- Fisher Stevens -
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands
-- Francesca Woodman -
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
-- Gary Cherone -
Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.
-- George Berkeley -
The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
-- Glenn Gould -
It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?
-- Gordon Bethune -
The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...
-- Gregory Galloway -
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
-- Gustav Mahler -
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
-- Guy Laliberte -
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.
-- Henry Abbey -
Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.
-- Herbert von Karajan -
Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.
-- Heston Blumenthal -
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
-- Hugh Leonard -
The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
-- Ian Mcewan -
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
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.
-- Isaac Stern -
On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
-- James Callis -
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
-- James Ellroy -
I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
-- Jane Horrocks -
I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.
-- Jay Kay -
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind
-- Jeff Beck -
To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.
-- Jennifer Hudson -
For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.
-- Jenny Offill -
Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
-- Jim Elliot -
You've got to know what goes between the notes.
-- Jimi Hendrix -
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.
-- Joe Pass -
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
-- Johannes Brahms -
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
-- John Lennon -
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
-- John Piper -
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
-- John Ruskin -
For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
-- Johnny Depp -
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
-- Jonah Lehrer -
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.
-- Jude Bijou -
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
-- Keith Emerson -
If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
-- Ken Kesey
