#notes

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#i #i write #notes #singing #sometimes

Music is the silence between the notes. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#music #notes #silence

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#examples #footnotes #generalize #historian #historians

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#between #cracks #dimension #explain #find

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right. ↗

— Jerry Hunt

#career #could #ever #had #i

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. ↗

— John Irving

#doing #front #i #know #months

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#because #cooper #crucial #else #exactly

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#back #choosing #days #doing #during

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

#fit #hitting #interesting #interesting way #me