Quotes and Sayings About Notes
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
-- Ace FrehleySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
-- Adoniram Judson GordonSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.
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God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
-- Alan Bennett -
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
-- Alex Kapranos -
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
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Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
-- Anne Boyd -
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You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
-- Anne Hathaway -
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
-- Anne Roiphe -
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 -
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
-- Artur SchnabelSource : Quoted in Chicago Daily News, 11 June 1958
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
-- Artur SchnabelSource : Artur Schnabel (1970). “My Life and Music”, p.122, Courier Corporation
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Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
-- Artur SchnabelSource : "Saturday Review" Magazine, September 29, 1951.
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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
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Boys everywhere take note: That was a kiss.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
-- Bernadette Peters -
High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.
-- Big SeanSource : Song: A Million Dollars, Album: Finally Famous 2: UKNOWBIGSEAN
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There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
-- Bruce Bennett