Notes Quotes

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny Life, Wish, Forget

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1201, Ageless Reads

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• This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

  Tina Turner

  Symphony, Heaven, Inspirational Music

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

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• The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

  Robert Caro

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet

  "Music, Visualized". Coast Weekend, May 24, 2012.

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• Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Sound, Band

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Wife, Choices

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• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  William Christopher Handy

  Song, Symphony, Bird

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Paper, Able, Emotion

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• Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Running, Gold, Panic

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• Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Years, Lifetime

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• I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

  Bruce Bennett

  Writing, Film, Boxes

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• 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

  Hitting, Range, Vans

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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  Ornette Coleman

  Color, Gdp, Titles

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

  Luc Ferrari

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Analysis, Use

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• It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

  Robin Trower

  Running, Play, Feelings

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• Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

  Eydie Gorme

  Voice, Lows, Changed

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• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

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• Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Said, Knows, Has Beens

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 1

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Four, Knows

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

  Franz Kafka

  Journal, Ifs

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• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

  Edvard Munch

  Spiritual, Ordinary, Diaries

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• Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Work, Careers

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• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, African American, Jazz

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