Notes Quotes - Page 2

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Never lose the groove to find a note.

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

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.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said.

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

He listens well who takes notes.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.