Notes Quotes - Page 6

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

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.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

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.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.

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

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

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

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

I love to hear the note sing.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.