Notes Quotes - Page 26

• I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, President, Gold

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

  Solange Knowles

  Letting Go, Perfect, Best Of The Best

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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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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• I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

  Andrew Bird

  Thinking, Violin, Tone

  "Andrew Bird On Songwriting, Chicago And Hideout’s 15th Anniversary Block Party" by Lauren Drell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

  Christopher Moore

  Song, Writing, Play

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  Norman McLaren

  Numbers, Quality, Elements

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• I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Inspiration, Important

  "Interview: Kami Garcia, 'Unbreakable'". Interview with Jessie Potts, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 1, 2013.

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• When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.

  Wayne Dyer

  Writing, Purpose, Ends

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

  Sue Miller

  Grandmother, Thinking, Diaries

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• Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Missing

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• And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Philosophy, Reading

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• Why play a chord when you can play one note?

  Alex Kapranos

  Play, Chords

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determination, Years, Two

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• It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Iron, Musical

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• Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized. Toward the demonized, however, he never expressed anger; rather he exhibited only compassion. As Langton notes, "Pity rather than anger characterizes the attitude of Jesus toward the possessed...He treats them as if they were the victims of an involuntary possession." Indeed, he treats them as though they are casualties of war. For, in his view, this is precisely what they are.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Attitude, War

  Gregory A. Boyd (2014). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.199, InterVarsity Press

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• For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Music, Hands, Giving

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• The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Dog, Animal

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Littles, Get Up

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

  Jay Leno

  Reading, Men, Florida

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• I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Grace, Reptiles

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

  Samuel Beckett

  Records, Lasts, Realizing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.252, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

  Marvin Gaye

  Thinking, Musical, Together

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• It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Farewell

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• Down the road someone is practicing scales,
  The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

  Louis MacNeice

  Music, Sound, Tails

  Louis Macneice, “Sunday Morning”

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