(450 quotes found)
“Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”
Count Basie
“He listens well who takes notes.”
Dante Alighieri
“Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.”
Charles Wolfe
“When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, or anybody. Because when I hit that note, I hit the umbilical cord of anybody who is listening.”
Carlos Santana
“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
“Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows”
Charles Reade
“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so”
William Shakespeare
“His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy, he'll tell you to cut taxes.”
Maureen Dowd
“[A ghostly side note: Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence?] I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.”
Wentworth Miller
“There are notes between notes, you know.”
Sarah Vaughan