1.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
Miles Davis
Anyone can participate. The technical aspect is only 20 percent. The mindset of the person executing it is 80 percent.
2.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Miles Davis
'The key to a successful composition is not the individual notes, but the sequence of them.'
3.
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
David Livingstone
'Absent Christ, no progress; with Him, boundless potential!'
4.
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
'The hush between tones is as paramount as the tones themselves.'
5.
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
T. S. Eliot
I gain considerable insight simply by observing you, allowing you to communicate freely and taking note of what remains unspoken.
6.
I choose such notes that love one another.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I select such sounds that are harmoniously compatible.
7.
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
Miles Davis
You must be familiar with 400 potential choices, then select the appropriate quartet.
8.
There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.
Thelonious Monk
'No tones are incorrect; some are just more fitting than others.'
9.
Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.
Uthman ibn Affan
10.
I note the obvious differences between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
11.
Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
Miles Davis
13.
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
Maimonides
14.
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
Victor Wooten
15.
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
Guy Laliberte
16.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Gore Vidal
17.
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Jonathan Lethem
18.
High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.
Big Sean
19.
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
Gustav Mahler
20.
I have never written a note I didn't mean.
Erik Satie
22.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
23.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
Dimebag Darrell
24.
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
26.
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
Oswald Chambers
27.
There is no such thing as a wrong note.
Art Tatum
29.
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands
Francesca Woodman
31.
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.
Serge Lutens
32.
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.
Johannes Brahms
33.
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.
Pablo Casals
34.
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
Alan Watts
35.
I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .
Prince
36.
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
37.
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
40.
You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.
Victor Wooten
41.
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
42.
Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised
Paul Laurence Dunbar
43.
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
Miles Davis
44.
It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.
Miles Davis
46.
David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard
Dave Mustaine
49.
What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
50.
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