Notes Quotes

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music, Loneliness, Between

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Love, Takes, Affair

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Jim Rohn

Important, Colors

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

Silence, Same, Quiet

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

Music, Beautiful, Black

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

Music, Failure, Big

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
Jon Stewart

Around, Internet, Passing

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Again, Speech, Played

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

Art, After, Simplicity

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

Down, Storm, Until

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Barbara Januszkiewicz

Between, Vision, Jazz

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
Jeff Bridges

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
Brian Eno

Trying, Find, Fit

He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
Willie Nelson

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Luciano Pavarotti

Afraid, High, Sane

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
Thomas S. Monson

Children, Compassion, Lord

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.
Susan Orlean

Hard, Pretty, Keep

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Great, Down

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
William Glasser

Teacher, School, Help

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
Louis Armstrong

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Ace Frehley

Someone, Guitar, Read

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
Lenny Kravitz

Mean, Together, Put

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
Tina Turner

Words, Become, Heaven

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.
Lena Dunham

Someone, Around, Else

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
Christopher Walken

Time, Character, Saying

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.
Harlan Coben

Time, Book, Writing

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.
Lauren Conrad

School, High, Read

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
Giada De Laurentiis

Everything, Down, Write

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.
Harvey Weinstein

Movies, Directors

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