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  • There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. -- Jim Rohn
  • If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou
  • Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. -- Frederic Chopin
  • Notes are expensive... spend them wisely -- B. B. King
  • Dont play any notes. Notes are for babies. -- Sir Richard Bishop
  • I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school. -- Lauren Conrad
  • For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion. -- Johnny Depp
  • Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. -- Ben Folds
  • It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations. -- Sanjay Kumar
  • For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes. -- Suzanne Finnamore
  • Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets! -- Ray Still
  • Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. -- Lance Reddick
  • What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. -- Cathleen Schine
  • Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. -- Jennifer Niven
  • I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing. -- Sue Tompkins
  • Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. -- Slash
  • The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."(Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) -- Raymond Chandler
  • Music is the silence between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
  • There are notes between notes, you know. -- Sarah Vaughan
  • Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. -- Anne Boyd
  • I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears. -- David Mitchell
  • Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. -- David Rockefeller
  • A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. -- Robert Frost
  • I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -- Joan Miro
  • I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever! -- Jane Levy
  • Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? -- Luciano Pavarotti
  • This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. -- Tina Turner
  • Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. -- Louis Armstrong
  • Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships! -- Alison Sweeney
  • If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. -- Johannes Brahms
  • The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. -- Blaine Lee
  • The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.. -- Blaine Lee Pardoe
  • It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. -- Naguib Mahfouz
  • The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. -- Artur Schnabel
  • Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. -- Eduard Hanslick
  • Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. -- Dayananda Saraswati
  • 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
  • Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. -- Hilary Mantel
  • 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
  • The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble. -- Wassily Kandinsky
  • 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
  • To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. -- Maria Mitchell
  • I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. -- Giuseppe Verdi
  • I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. -- Steffi Graf
  • I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. -- Dennis Farina
  • Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key. -- Robert Patterson
  • I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. -- Charlie Parker
  • In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. -- Alfred Adler
  • Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart. -- Wolfgang Puck
  • The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. -- Albert Camus
  • 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
  • I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead. -- Kenny G
  • Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. -- Dan Ariely
  • We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved. -- Joshua Foer
  • After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
  • Composers combine notes, that's all. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • There are no wrong notes. -- Miles Davis
  • Take notes. Everything is copy. -- Nora Ephron
  • I played the wrong wrong notes. -- Thelonious Monk
  • I'm known for my handwritten notes. -- Pamela Anderson
  • He listens well who takes notes. -- Dante Alighieri
  • The piano ain't got no wrong notes. -- Thelonious Monk
  • When your heart speaks, take good notes. -- Judith Exner
  • I take notes like some people take drugs... -- Tim Ferriss
  • Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes -- Joseph Joubert
  • I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I choose such notes that love one another. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • I never use notes, they interfere with me. -- Ken Blanchard
  • Music is in the space between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
  • False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. -- Nadia Boulanger
  • Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes. -- Harvey Weinstein
  • I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes. -- Shailene Woodley
  • [On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! -- Nadia Boulanger
  • If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist. -- Victor Wooten
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  • A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes -- Victor Wooten
  • You've got to know what goes between the notes. -- Jimi Hendrix
  • Pound notes are the best religion in the world. -- Brendan Behan
  • Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. -- John Milton
  • I gotta take notes when things occur to me. -- Jeff Bridges
  • Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. -- Elvis Costello
  • The only notes that matter come in a wad -- John Lydon
  • Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes. -- Terry Pratchett
  • You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them. -- Eddie Van Halen
  • Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! -- Michele Jennae
  • Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes. -- Pablo Casals
  • To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet. -- Thomas Gray
  • There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. -- John Lennon
  • No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy. -- Manny Pacquiao
  • It was like being high when you reach those high notes. -- Bernadette Peters
  • An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes. -- Renee Fleming
  • It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked. -- Wladimir Klitschko
  • The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. -- Courtney Love
  • Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot! -- Dane Cook
  • Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ... -- Muriel Spark
  • Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes. -- Wes Fesler
  • You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. -- Robert Burns
  • Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. -- Laozi
  • I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes. -- Bobby Keys
  • I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away. -- Sarah Dessen
  • It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes. -- Charlie Parker
  • Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds. -- Yakov Smirnoff
  • Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes. -- Prince Royce
  • I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. -- Jon Stewart
  • Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke -- The Notorious B.I.G.
  • It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. -- Miles Davis
  • The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Music is not in the notes but in what is between them. -- Ella Leya
  • I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends. -- Hedy Lamarr
  • It's the space you put between the notes that make the music. -- Massimo Vignelli
  • The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong. -- Eugene Ormandy
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