#notes

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. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

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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

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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it. ↗

— Ville Valo

#chord #combination #covering #covers #heart

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry. ↗

— Robin Trower

#cry #feeling #i #impossible #into

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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