Notes Music Quotes

There's no such thing as a wrong note. ~ Art Tatum

Iris, if you were a melody ... piano melody. I used only the good notes. ~ Jack Black

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. ~ Claude Debussy

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is in the space between the notes. ~ Claude Debussy

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. ~ Isaac Stern

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! ~ Nadia Boulanger

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. ~ Luka Sulic

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. ~ Petra Haden

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist. ~ Victor Wooten

There are no wrong notes. ~ Miles Davis

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming ... clouds of educated gnat-notes. ~ Frank Zappa

Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. ~ Artur Schnabel

If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes ~ Eddie Van Halen

There are notes between notes, you know. ~ Sarah Vaughan

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. ~ Pablo Casals

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. ~ Glenn Gould

I am involved in every step of the process [musicmaking]. Whether it is the production or the mixing or the visuals and music videos. I'm involved in every step of the way as far as the creative, directing and merchandise . Just making sure everything that falls in line with my brand is portrayed a certain type of way. It all about quality control and attention to detail, and making sure anything you put your name on is on point. ~ G-Eazy

If music be the food of love, play on rock on . William Shakespeare

- love evolution ~ Michelle Mankin

I don't think you miss what you've never had. ~ Bernard Sumner

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music. ~ Mike Watt

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Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it. ~ Rajneesh

It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on. ~ Kevin Brooks

Has any progress been made on Cabal's notes?" "All a bit technical for me, I'm afraid," said Karstetz, who found getting dressed unassisted all a bit technical for him. ~ Jonathan L. Howard

Music teaches us about lyricism in writing, a delicate turn of phrase, selectiveness with words, rhythmic passages. Most of all, music, like good writing, touches our emotions with cadences that slip in like a subtle visitor, familiar and known before. ~ Suzy Davies

Tangling up in bed like this, naked and hard with a predator's mouth against his and a killer's hands all over his skin, was deliciously dangerous - if this was what it was like to dance with the devil, then Dom hoped the music never stopped playing. He ~ L.A. Witt

My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. I can sing like an angel, and growl like a lion. I am not owned. I am music. ~ C.D. Reiss

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. ~ Yanni

I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video. ~ Bethany Mota

If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a lot of religious groups judging, especially in the way they've treated me in the past couple of years. I've grown tired of talking about religion. It's time for me to move on. I'm trying to redefine the idea of spirituality and make it now such a bad word for myself, because I find that I sound really stupid saying it sometimes ~ Marilyn Manson

For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing. ~ Neneh Cherry

My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally. ~ Ingeborg Bachmann

Music is my life. It is sacred. ~ Jimmy Chamberlin

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am. ~ Cheyenne Jackson

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs? ~ Trey Songz

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible. ~ Fanny Kemble

These classical projections, and something in the physical attitudes of the men themselves as they turned from the fire, suddenly suggested Poussin's scene in which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure: stepping slowly, methodically, sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seemingly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle: unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance. ~ Anthony Powell

When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's. ~ Steven Tyler

For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.' ~ Jenny Lewis

For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me. ~ Laura Mvula

What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) ~ Michele Norris

When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that. ~ Jason Mraz

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education. ~ Andie MacDowell

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself ~ Heinrich Neuhaus

What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music. ~ Kate Bush

That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti. ~ Edwidge Danticat

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does. ~ Mark Batterson

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Wrapped up in the music, I threw myself into an overstuffed chair and let my legs dangle over the arm, the position in which Nature intended music to be listened to, and for the first time in days I felt the muscles in my neck relaxing. ~ Alan Bradley

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool. ~ Julia Glass

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. ~ Roscoe Mitchell

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob. ~ Rachel Cohn

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys. ~ Thomas Dolby

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is. ~ Russell Smith

The crematorium could not burn the bodies fast enough - so after we dug long trenches, we pulled and dragged the bodies to the edges and threw them in. You'll not believe it, but the SS forced the prisoners' band to play music as we lugged the corpses - and for that, I hope they burn in hell with polkas blaring. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through the city and notes the shattered skull of the suicide, the "grey sick faces of onanists," etc., etc. But unquestionably our own age, at any rate in Western Europe, is less healthy and less hopeful than the age in which Whitman was writing. Unlike Whitman, we live in a shrinking world. The "democratic vistas" have ended in barbed wire. There is less feeling of creation and growth, less and less emphasis on the cradle, endlessly rocking, more and more emphasis on the teapot, endlessly stewing. To accept civilisation as it is practically means accepting decay. It has ceased to be a strenuous attitude and become a passive attitude - even "decadent," if that word means anything. ~ George Orwell

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. ~ Boris Vian

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. ~ Brad Mehldau

Droplets of yes and no, in an ocean of maybe. ~ Faith No More

The best music of any era lasts well, I think. ~ Peter Asher

Once you find your own sound, you find the strength and courage to stay true to that. Keep going even in moments when you're not blazing on fire and relevant with everyone around you. It's because you love to make music. It's making sure that the music isn't about the technology and tools, but truly about the music. Because that's how humanity and the soul are communicated. The soul is the true tool. ~ Richie Hawtin