High Notes Quotes - Page 2

• Be aware of the high notes,
  Of the blissful faces and their soft messages,
  And listen for the silent message
  Of a highly decorated gift.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Faces, Messages, Silent

  "Emissaries". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

  Anne Rice

  Glasses, Singers, Way

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1226, Ballantine Books

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• If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

  Sammy Hagar

  Want, Notes, Lows

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• I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

  Charlie Parker

  Play, Lines, Progression

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• Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Expression, Break Out

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.9, Random House

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• I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Party, College, Glasses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Voice, Firsts

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.376, Scholastic Inc.

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• I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

  Chet Baker

  Thinking, Play, Two

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• So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

  Renee Fleming

  Looks, Mouths, Singers

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.66, Penguin

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• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Wall, Glasses

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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• I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

  Vince Neil

  Song, Years, Wire

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.

  Todd Rundgren

  Senior, Voice, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

  Dave Barry

  Risk, Normal, Anthem

  "Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway". Book by Dave Barry, 2001.

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• When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

  Burton Cummings

  Car, Singing, Trying

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

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Singers, Notes

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• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

  Idina Menzel

  Unique, Giving, Singing

  "Idina Menzel: From Broadway To The Symphony". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• I can't hit some of the
  real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore
  different avenues.

  Roger Daltrey

  Real, Different, Used

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• If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

  Evander Holyfield

  Wish, Singers, Wow

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Book, Successful, Thinking

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• We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Years, Purple

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

  Big Sean

  Trying, Ends, Notes

  Song: A Million Dollars, Album: Finally Famous 2: UKNOWBIGSEAN

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