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The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. -- Sarah McCoy
Music is the silence between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. -- Jane Horrocks
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -- Joan Miro
Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes. -- John McLaughlin
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. -- Richard M. Nixon
I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music. -- Lola Kirke
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music. -- Mandy Patinkin
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. -- Sarah Caldwell
I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. -- Petra Haden
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. -- Luka Sulic
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. -- Herbie Hancock
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. -- Ornette Coleman
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. -- Toru Takemitsu
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. -- Robert Caro
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
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely. -- Christine Baranski
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes. -- Ornette Coleman
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 blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. -- Wynton Marsalis
Music is in the space between the notes. -- Claude Debussy
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. -- Nadia Boulanger
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes -- Joseph Joubert
[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! -- Nadia Boulanger
If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist. -- Victor Wooten
Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! -- Michele Jennae
It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes. -- Charlie Parker
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. -- Eddie Izzard
Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. -- Ben Folds
It's the space you put between the notes that make the music. -- Massimo Vignelli
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
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. -- Pablo Casals
There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music. -- Eva Ibbotson
There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. -- Eva Ibbotson
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. -- Gustav Mahler
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. -- John Dryden
In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation. -- Terry Bozzio
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. -- John Ruskin
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! -- Victor Wooten
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! -- Victor Wooten
It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful. -- Cassandra Clare
The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. -- Gloria Naylor
I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music. -- Glenn Kotche
Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. -- Sting
All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. -- Bryant McGill
While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. -- Jonah Lehrer
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them -- Karl Lagerfeld
Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it]. -- Hans Rosling
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. -- Rebecca West
Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. -- Jennifer Niven
I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. -- Sarah Tomp
Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes. -- Steve Turre
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. -- AraabMuzik
Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. -- James McKean
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? -- Claude Debussy
We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own. -- Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. -- Tom Lehrer
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. -- Edward Gardner
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. -- Spencer W. Kimball
The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking. -- Leon Redbone
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely -- Christine Baranski
One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. -- Sharon M. Draper
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. -- Amos Oz
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. -- Anthony Daniels
We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can. -- Jose Mourinho
For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes. -- Clarice Lispector
Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on. -- Jillian Hervey
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key. -- Charlotte Moss

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