(450 quotes found)
“The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Music is the silence between the notes.”
Claude Debussy
“We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.”
Louis Armstrong
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”
Sun Tzu
“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.”
Conor Oberst
“O monstrous world! Take note, take note, o world,To be direct and honest is not safe!”
William Shakespeare
“The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.”
Thomas Gray
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust”
Igor Stravinsky
“Mine ear is enamoured by thy note; So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; and thy fair virtues force perforce doth move me; to say, to swear, I love thee”
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
