Quotes about Music Notes

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. Votes: 3

Music is the silence between the notes. Votes: 2

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. Votes: 2

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Votes: 2

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes. Votes: 2

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Votes: 2

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music. Votes: 2

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music. Votes: 2

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Votes: 2

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. Votes: 2

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. Votes: 2

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. Votes: 2

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. Votes: 2

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. Votes: 2

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. Votes: 2

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Music is in the space between the notes. Votes: 0

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. Votes: 0

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes Votes: 0

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! Votes: 0

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist. Votes: 0

Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! Votes: 0

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes. Votes: 0

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. Votes: 0

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. Votes: 0

It's the space you put between the notes that make the music. Votes: 0

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. Votes: 0

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them. Votes: 0

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. Votes: 0

There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music. Votes: 0

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. Votes: 0

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. Votes: 0

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes. Votes: 0

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation. Votes: 0

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? Votes: 0

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. Votes: 0

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Votes: 0

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! Votes: 0

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! Votes: 0

It was like I saw your soul in the notes of the music. And it was beautiful. Votes: 0

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. Votes: 0

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music. Votes: 0

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. Votes: 0

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. Votes: 0

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. Votes: 0

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them Votes: 0

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it]. Votes: 0

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Votes: 0

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. Votes: 0

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. Votes: 0

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes. Votes: 0

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. Votes: 0

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. Votes: 0

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? Votes: 0

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. Votes: 0

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own. Votes: 0

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0