Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want. — George Gershwin
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon
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
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. — Gustav Mahler
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. — Claude Debussy
There is no such thing as a wrong note. — Art Tatum
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. — Iannis Xenakis
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. — Gabriel Marcel
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
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one. — Miles Davis
The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind. — Maria Cristina Mena
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
Music gives color to the air of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld
This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. — Tina Turner
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. — Guy Laliberte
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. — Claude Debussy
I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know — Vladimir Horowitz
Musical Notes Image Quotes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
What Makes A Note A Note Quotes
Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply? — David Steindl-Rast
What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth? — Nancy Reagan
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that. — Dennis Brown
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
A girl in New York whose parents were on Wife Swap is suing the show for 100-million dollars for making her look like a spoiled brat. Note to girl: guess what else makes you look like a spoiled brat? Being 15 and suing for a hundred million dollars. — Jimmy Fallon
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record. — Chris Martin
Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique. — Elliott Hundley
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards. — Joe Pass
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. — Aristotle
I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life. — David Toop
Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal. — Mike Gordon
Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful. — Ritchie Blackmore
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us. — William Booth
The earth has music for those who listen.
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. — Eric Clapton
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul — Plato
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. — Abdu'l-Bahá
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. — Doug Coupland
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
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell
God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity. — Paul David Tripp
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection — Frederic Chopin
Never lose the groove to find a note. — Victor Wooten
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. — Ornette Coleman
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. — Marvin Gaye
And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave. — Edgar Allan Poe
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born. — Charlie Parker
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me. — Patrick Rothfuss
I've always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I've always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone. Because, many times, it is more important a note or an orchestration than a line said. — Sergio Leone
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
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind — Jeff Beck
A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses. — Alber Elbaz
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear? — Horace Silver
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed. — Penn Jillette
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. — Jerry Garcia
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. — Pau (Pablo) Casals
I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note. — Pamela Des Barres
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well. — Elvis Costello
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible. — Charlie Parker
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony — James Whistler
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call. — Rollo May
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. — John Lennon
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