THIS EDITION: note
Quoted In The Grove:
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
~Seamus Heaney
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
~Branford Marsalis
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.
~Louis Malle
EndQuote:
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
~Franz Kafka
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I’ve met the Queen a couple of times, and she’s been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: ‘What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I’ll do that.’ She’s all about courtesy.
~Jools Holland
If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for ‒ someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note ‒ do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today.
~Lisa Jakub
Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.
~Tom Lenk
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I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
~Corey Reynolds
There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
~Carrie Snodgress
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
~Anne Lamott
When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 people roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn’t come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he’d made and a note that said, ‘John, I’d love to come to your party, but that would mean I would have to leave my house.’
~John Prine
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I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I’ve never found a better system.
~Lawrence Wright
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
~Edgar Allan Poe
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
~Candice Bergen
I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it’s better when I see it on paper.
~Moneybagg Yo
I’m always writing at night ‒ things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
~Don Mattingly
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
~Donald E Westlake
I don’t make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: ‘everything.’ Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
~Aleksandar Hemon
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You see that my mind is not in great danger of rusting. The danger is that I may become a mere pedant. I feel a habit of quotation growing on me; but I resist that devil, for such it is, and it flees from me. It is all that I can do to keep Greek and Latin out of all my letters. Wise sayings of Euripides are even now at my fingers’ ends. If I did not maintain a constant struggle against this propensity, my correspondence would resemble the notes to the Pursuits of Literature.
~Thomas Babington Macaulay
It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word ‘ergo’ on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
~Donna Lynne Champlin
I like my stationery to be funnier, like, ‘Here’s my note, and it’s an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.’
~Kate Spade
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…a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists, and manifestoes can all be put into a note.
~Caterina Fake
Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, ‘to do’ lists.
~Daniel Levitin
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Posted From The Grove
I often note that my accent is a result of reading, writing, and speaking in three languages, something that immigrants across our nation understand. That isn’t something we are ashamed of; it is something that makes us proud Americans.
~Michelle Steel
Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it’s always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.
~Shelby Steele
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It’s a love note for our people, but it’s also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
~Opal Tometi
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
~Richard M Nixon
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After Bush was elected in 2004… and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who’d grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
~Ben Fountain
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The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
~Bernard L Schwartz
But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.
~John McCain
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Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.
~Faith Salie
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don’t know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
~Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.
~Alex Berenson
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‘E pluribus unum‘ is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don’t mind the e pluribus part ‒ they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.
~Mike Gallagher
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn’t die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
~ Ferdinand Lassalle
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One seldom expects the country’s president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter’s assessment of Elvis Presley’s appeal ‒ ‘energy, rebelliousness and good humor’ ‒ is remarkably close to the mark.
~Molly Ivins
The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
~Blaine Lee
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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.
~Albert Camus
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
~Howard Berman
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It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. (pre-1950)
~David Korten
(Editor’s Note: The following quote from Oxfam report (Jan, 2023)
— Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years
— World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people)
My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don’t think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn’t be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
~Bryan Cranston
Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
~Jay Inslee
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When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don’t support Velcro shoes.
~Ashley Rickards
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Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
~Roger Altman
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
~Georges Duhamel
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
~Sam Brownback
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It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one’s life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.
~Marcel Duchamp
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they’re currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
~Michelle Dean
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I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.
~Michael McCaul
But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
~Barney Frank
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
~Albert Camus
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I’ve found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet ‒ for instance, in the Middle East ‒ even very conservative politicians in the region will say, ‘You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,’ or, ‘Would you send a note to my granddaughter?’
~Condoleezza Rice
Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not ‒ it’s our choice ‒ and it’s time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
~Yuna
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what’s good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
~Lee Smith
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Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
~Andrew Greeley
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there’s no single action or component of the overall… comprehensive civil-military approach.
~David Petraeus
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The year 2016 was a year of revolutionary event, a year of great change, worthy of note in the history of our Party and country.
~Kim Jong-un
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That’s the truth. And on that note, I’ll say goodnight. God love you.
~Bobby Darin
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~Merlen Meyer: DIPTYQUE – Do Son (4:42) provides the images and music you connect into story
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~WOW Tech: People Who Are At Another Level (15:40) call them notable, prepare to Pause and Rewind 10
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~Caroline Bologna: Funny Tweets For Grammar Nerds …and why not?
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~Vincent Urban: In Russia (6:37) Forget the politicians; real people live in real beauty here (reprised)
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There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people ‒ you can only organize the work that people do.
~Michael Gerber
One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the ‘compass metric’ because it will be your compass for growth. It’s important to note that ‘compass metrics’ will likely change over the lifetime of a business.
~Tobias Lutke
As a small business or startup, one of the factors you should always consider when looking at a potential partnership is the incremental potential reach. Note that wider reach doesn’t always mean a better partnership opportunity. Instead of sheer scale, take a look at which communities your potential partner can open up for you.
~Leah Busque
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When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don’t want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don’t forget about you.
~Mellody Hobson
Don’t add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don’t put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
~M J Rose
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Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
~Serge Schmemann
I started on a very high note and I was always able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
~Claire Bloom
It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being ‘greedy’ by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.
~Julie Burchill
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
~Goldie Hawn
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.
~Marcus Buckingham
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When I have interns, I always say, ‘Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.’ People remember that ‒ not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.
~Andre Leon Talley
I remember ordering records out of the Dischord catalog in the ’80s, and there would be a handwritten note.
~Beto O’Rourke
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The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.
~Robert Green Ingersoll
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
~P J O’Rourke
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of ‘Mad Men.’
~Douglas Coupland
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As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.
~Rick Ross
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
~Doug Coupland
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
~Barry Ritholtz
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, ‘Your bill was paid.’ And there would be a note saying, ‘Mr. Ma, I’m your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don’t, so I paid the bill.’
~Jack Ma
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Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
~Virat Kohli
Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don’t like you, who don’t like what you stand for. I can’t worry about that.
~Antonio Davis (NBA)
I wanted to be positive. I have good sportsmanship. You leave everything on a good note, you just smile and shake hands.
~Vernon Davis
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I know that all good things must come to an end and I’ve had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
~Alonzo Mourning
On a personal note, I think it won’t be until after I’ve retired that I’m fully aware of what I’ve done or what I’ve gone on to achieve in my career.
~Lionel Messi
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
~Hank Stram
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
~Marcus Aurelius
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§ VIDEO:
After ‘Arrested Development,’ I didn’t know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the ‘ethnic best friend’ or the ‘sassy teenager.’ It felt like the same note, and I didn’t feel like I was growing.
~Alia Shawkat
The work evolves when you get another part, and then you’re getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It’s more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.
~Hope Davis
I don’t like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.
~Elisha Cuthbert
Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn’t just supply one note.
~Jeffrey Jones
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I only have one note, let’s be honest. But I’ll play a different version of that one note.
~David Spade
People say I’m a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
~Joel McCrea
No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can’t completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn’t do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it’s better.
~Leslie Caron
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I love auditioning. Since ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Wedding Crashers,’ I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
~Rachel McAdams
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: ‘Someone has to succeed. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be me.’ Repeat before every audition.
~Janet McTeer
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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, ‘How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?’
~Jennifer Lawrence
It’s a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone’s subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
~Tisha Campbell-Martin
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
~Ciaran Hinds
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
~Dorothy Malone
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I’ve never worked with anyone I’ve trusted so completely. He won’t let you hit a false note.
~Dianne Wiest
If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they’ll admit they’ve never seen anything like it. I’ll give him an emotional note and he’ll hit it every time.
~Darren Aronofsky
When I’m hard at work, when I’m deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.
~Shonda Rhimes
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When we run out of them upstairs, I’ve been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of ‘Eat this, Not That!’ fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the ‘not that’ category. I made a note of it.
~Lester Holt
Please note when you watch a play, you can’t pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.
~Aisling Bea
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Savvy observers occasionally note television’s resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
~Michael Medved
The bane of every TV writer’s existence is the likability note.
~Marti Noxon
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~Omeleto: Silly Human (12:49) ominous, chilling
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~Omeleto: Slave to the Page (16:34) too little/too much, and the spark of a story
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~Omeleto: Lady Bently’s End (6:11) delicious on wry
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What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it’s important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.
~Matthew Walker
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
~Deborah Harkness
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~Virginia Woolf
With every milestone that I’ve come across, there’s always been a little note at the bottom that’s said, ‘Don’t worry, there’s another milestone coming up.’
~Jack Garratt
I didn’t want Sadness to be just one note.
~Phyllis Smith
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
~Gore Vidal
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it’s a bottle rack, or that it’s a bottle rack that has changed its destination.
~Marcel Duchamp
I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it’s just that we don’t get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don’t know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity.
~Tanya Saracho
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I don’t like to watch a movie where it’s just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.
~Catherine Hardwicke
We’re used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there’s really only one note that you get, and that’s clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They’ll sacrifice the joke. They’ll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.
~Noah Hawley
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I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
~John Hodgman
Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
~Kenelm Digby
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‘Man v. Food‘ was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.
~Adam Richman
I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
~Daniel Boulud
We use many expressions of fennel: blended with potato, it’s an earthy, rich puree; the raw fronds add a fresh, green note; and the braised version gives it a luscious, home-cooked feel, something people can connect to ‒ you need that in any dish.
~Daniel Humm
Note to self: never eat garlic before a fashion show because everyone greets you with a kiss on both cheeks.
~Stacey Solomon
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it’s different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I’ve always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
~Damian Woetzel
I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a good note to go out.
~John Motson
I couldn’t have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
~Mark Goddard
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You’ve got to be able to finish out the season on a strong note.
~Paul Pierce (NBA)
I just want to go out on a high note, go out on top, and lead my team.
~Eric Weddle (NFL)
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
~Richard Steele
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Let us note that art ‒ even on an abstract level ‒ has never been confined to ‘idea‘; art has always been the ‘realized‘ expression of equilibrium.
~Piet Mondrian
If you are an artist, you may live with Lincoln. You sit with him, your coat is spread to keep the snow from the grave of Ann Rutledge; you will walk with Washington through the snow and suffer with him as you note the bloodstained footsteps at Valley Forge.
~Gutzon Borglum
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§ MUSIC:
I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
~Michael Masser (songwriter)
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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
~Andrew Bird
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
~Conor Oberst
That’s the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that’s uncontrollable.
~Edith Bowman
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If I can play one note and make you cry, then that’s better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.
~Robbie Robertson
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
That’s the thing about the blues: It’s one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
~Joe Bonamassa
It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
~Leon Redbone
You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way… All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
~Herbie Hancock
I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
~Eric Clapton
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You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto
I don’t like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players.
~Johnny Marr
Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it’s three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it’s five sentences ‒ that’s me. I like to pare away words because I don’t want to waste anyone’s time.
~Bill Callahan
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn’t learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
~Flea
I hate the natural sound of the trumpet, but I think I’m naturally set up to be a trumpet player. I know that sounds weird. But pretty much anytime I play a note, I’m uncomfortable in a general sense.
~Christian Scott
What I was interested in was conveying an emotional message, which means using everything you’ve got inside you sometimes to barely make a note, or if you have to strain to sing, you sing.
~Nina Simone
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When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.
~David Byrne
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No bird has ever uttered note
That was not in some first bird’s throat;
Since Eden’s freshness and man’s fall
No rose has been original.
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There isn’t one album that says ‘Hall & Oates.’ It’s always ‘Daryl Hall and John Oates.’ From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of ‘Hall & Oates,’ this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we’ve ever wanted or liked.
~John Oates
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Holding a note is a very difficult thing ‒ you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
~Daphne Guinness
I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I’m blue in the face… because I have such a big lung capacity.
~Jessica Simpson
I can’t hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.
~Lyriq Bent
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I’d like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
~Katherine Jenkins
The high note is not the only thing.
~Placido Domingo
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn’t play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world’s best listener.
~Carla Bley
I would get records by Earl Scruggs… I would tune my banjo down and I’d pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking… And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
~Steve Martin
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician.
~Douglas Adams
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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
~Jess Glynne
For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.
~Justin Vernon
I can’t sing, like, I can’t saaang. I’m no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn’t mean you can sing.
~Michael Ealy
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Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you’re playing a chord, and that’s exactly what you don’t want.
~Yngwie Malmsteen
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
~John Petrucci
Eric Clapton’s scales ‒ when he comes off a high note and it’s time for a refrain or a little bit of a rest, he peals off scales going downwards that are so good it’s unbelievable.
~Chris Rea
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I ended my journey with ‘Balika’… on a good note, but I’ve been hearing that I threw tantrums on the set and had an attitude problem.
~Pratyusha Banerjee
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That’s how petty the situation had become.
~Sammy Hagar
Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it’s still on a high note.
~Trey Anastasio
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
~Don Henley
The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.
~Peter Hook
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Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
~Count Basie
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
~Ornette Coleman
I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I’ve spawned.
~Walter Becker
There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
~Casey Abrams
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I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I’m singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn’t matter what you are as long as you’re truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It’s not like you can just go, ‘Oh, it doesn’t really matter what note you sing!’
~Jake Epstein
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, ‘I will not concentrate on this note.’ You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life…
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
~Daniel Barenboim (pianist)
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Music can change everything for you if it’s honest and strikes a note inside.
~Maddie Marlow
In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.
~Ray LaMontagne
I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don’t just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don’t hear it then I can’t feed myself.
~Michael Schenker
Great musicians, you don’t just hear them, you feel them.
~Zakk Wylde
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To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
~Steven Wright (comedian)
I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.
~Jayne Meadows
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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
~Enya
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
~Vanessa Carlton
I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.
~Max Martin
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing ‒ if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
~Frank Sinatra
Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That’s what it comes down to, you know?
~Will Champlin
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
~Henry Rollins
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~dino4ever: Dean Martin & Caterina Valente • One Note Samba (3:18) mellow Martin mischief in service to music
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~Toby Kieth: Big Blue Note (3:21) blue skies to blue note to just blue
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~JalapoaoMaji: Five For Fighting • Note To The Unknown Soldier (3:26) some did, in fact, give up their one life for US
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~marallmusic: all-star cast • A Song Is Born (6:26) before all that jazz
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~Neil Young: This Note’s For You (4:20) odd visual inserts
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~Dierks Bentley: High Note (5:36) if they drop the big one, here’s the plan
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~Randy Houser: Note To Self (3:15) big lessons learned the hard way
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~Mr Bungee: Donna Murphy • Hit Me With A Hot Note (3:18) inhabited with a storyline
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~Todd Kessler: One More Note (3:13) gentling thru days as a path in life
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~Lamego Alvelos: Roger Waters • Brain Damage/Eclipse (6:03) just because
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As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
~Georges Bizet
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of ‘Pippin‘? Maybe.
~Jean Hanff Korelitz
I’m looking for an intensity of focus. It’s a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it’s there: you’ve got a note.
~Lenny Abrahamson
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I can’t read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can’t sit still at any instrument.
~Suzanne Farrell (ballerina)
My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It’s all about harmonization. That’s more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don’t play any instrument.
~Catriona Gray
I didn’t understand key signatures or anything, you know. I’d say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, ‘Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they’re B naturals.’ And some guy said: ‘Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it’s a key signature, you know?’
~Quincy Jones
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
~George Shearing
For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it’s the separation of the intervals.
~Allan Holdsworth
As a melody instrument player, it’s all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything’s moving forward, and it’s all linear.
~David Sanborn
We’ve always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we’re the only people who play more than one note. I’m not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey’s playing.
~Christine McVie
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I think John Williams, him and his team, have been incredible orchestrators. By that, I mean how he chooses which instrument plays which note.
~David Newman
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The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness… the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
~Norman McLaren (theremin)
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
~Charles Petzold
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I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn’t matter if you can’t play a note, it’s how you communicate.
~Siobhan Fahey
If there was a wrong note, it didn’t matter as long as it was rocking.
~Malcolm Young
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can’t play ‘Swanee River’ on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
~Eugene Chadbourne
No disrespect to people that don’t use music theory or don’t know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
~Mike Dean
I’m tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is?
~Betty Wright
Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn’t do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos ‒ Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn’t a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.
~Jeff Beck
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, ‘It sounds like he’s played the wrong note there.’ I remember the look of horror on my dad’s face, and thinking, ‘Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.’
~Laura Mvula
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes ‒ errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: ‘Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn’t know about this.’
~Ryuichi Sakamoto
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I’d hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
~Dimebag Darrell
There is no such thing as a wrong note.
~Art Tatum
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We’ve spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, ‘Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it’s there for posterity? We’re not going to go out there without a safety net.’ People are scared to death of that.
~Craig Zadan
If you don’t take no chances, then you’re not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they’ll hit the high note. They’ll hit that note, they’re not afraid, they’re gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, ‘Wow, I wish I could do that!’
~Evander Holyfield
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You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you’re on film, you can’t. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
~Will Friedle
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
That’s what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, ‘Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out’ ‒ or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
~Jack White
They look for the top note to end every song. They don’t know what they are singing about. There is no style.
~Frankie Avalon
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Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you’re going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you’ve done something and there’s a slight difference in your breathing.
~Phil Everly
With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don’t have the luxury of falling back on anything.
~Ben Folds
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If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It’s in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. You have to figure it out.
~Itzhak Perlman
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Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.
~Steve Albini
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
~Leo Kottke
A guitar is so tactile, and when you’re playing bends ‒ and bending notes is a big part of my style ‒ there are so many notes within the note you’re bending from and the note you’re bending up to.
~Joe Bonamassa
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To me it’s no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it’s 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I’m trying to say is, I think it’s God’s voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony… that’s the science and the craft.
~Quincy Jones
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The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
~Max Heindel
I like music where it can be taken in at many levels, as far as the emotions behind it. Somebody like Miles Davis ‒ there’s such a wide range of feelings within even one note. Those kinds of things really resonate for me.
~Ron Mael
Fats [Domino] ‒ very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.
~Cecil Taylor
When I was young, I had an ‘aha’ moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything ‒ Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince ‒ in there.
~D’Angelo
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
~Gustav Mahler
We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
~Guy Laliberte
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I never was a liner note junkie. I didn’t know who produced records or there was such a thing as a straight songwriter. I always assumed that everybody that was singing a song wrote it or made it up.
~Chris Stapleton
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
~Enya
You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
~Daniel Barenboim
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
~Alan Dean Foster
I can play just about any keyboard but I can’t read or write a note.
~John Carpenter
I don’t know one note from another.
~Hank Williams
I can read a chord chart, but I couldn’t read a note chart.
~Glen Campbell
I can’t read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
~Jane Horrocks
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I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there’s very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.
~Jay DeMarcus
I don’t think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I’d give up. I’d become a banker.
~Peter Frampton
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Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
~Steve Lacy
I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it’s usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
~Jonathan Demme
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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.
~Wynton Marsalis
That’s why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That’s why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
~Andra Day
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Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.
~Cecil Taylor
It’s not about retro or modern, it’s about this note or that note, which sounds better?
~Dan Hicks
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The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you’ve got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
~Suzi Quatro
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I’d play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
~Mike Gordon
If I had a pull on ‘One of These Nights,’ on the first high note on ‘One of These Nights,’ that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley’s eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level.
~Don Felder
When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I’m not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, ‘You have to play it like this,’ or I tell the drummer, ‘It’s got to be like this.’
~David Foster
I can’t leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can’t put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, ‘Oh no, I could have done that top note better.’
~Katherine Jenkins
If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, ‘You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don’t believe in.’ I will never do that.
~Gina Prince-Bythewood
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
~Bliss Carman
NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that’s kind of amazing.
~Brian Reitzell
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The records I make, I’m there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.
~Devin Townsend
I’d much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It’s not art.
~Trent Reznor
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I tell students, ‘If you are learning from YouTube I almost don’t want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.’ They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.
~Kiri Te Kanawa
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
~Daniel Barenboim
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let’s call it, ‘collective unconscious’ of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
~Gian Carlo Menotti
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
~Andrea Bocelli
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I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.
~Brian Stokes Mitchell
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~Frederic Chopin
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.
~David Sanborn
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another… and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
~Leonard Bernstein
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Most gracious maisty, ’twas I that did it, but indeed it was so poor and frail a note, compared with such as I am wont to furnish, yt in sooth I was ashamed to call the weakling mine in so august a presence. It was nothing — less than nothing, madam — I did it but to clear my nether throat; but had I come prepared, then had I delivered something worthy. Bear with me, please your grace, till I can make amends. [Then delivered he himself of such a godless and rock-shivering blast that all were fain to stop their ears, and following it did come so dense and foul a stink that that which went before did seem a poor and trifling thing beside it.]
~Mark Twain
What my mother intended that I understand, however, was precisely this: No one wants to hear you make a big stink over nothing, so shut up. The strict linguist might want to note that the literal translation of that Chinese phrase runs along these noble lines: Loud farts don’t smell, the really smelly ones are deadly silent.
~Amy Tan
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
~Twinkle Khanna
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I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you’re starting out in comedy, it’s the audience that tells you what’s funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that.
~Mike Birbiglia
If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you’ll note it’s not because they tell jokes, it’s because of their character. If you develop characters, then you’ll know them, and you’ll know how they’ll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
~Anne Beatts
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
~Twinkle Khanna
Maybe there’s a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don’t mind ending it on a sourer note.
~Stephen Merchant
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn’t sing a single note of music.
~Mandy Patinkin
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note ‒ and we won!
~Cheech Marin
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I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
~Ethel Merman
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
~Dewitt Bodeen
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I wondher why ye can always read a doctor’s bill an’ ye niver can read his purscription. F’r all ye know, it may be a short note to th’ druggist askin’ him to hit ye on th’ head with a pestle.
~Finley Peter Dunne
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’
~Demetri Martin
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’
~Tommy Cooper
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Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don’t get grouped as ‘dad comics.’
~Ali Wong
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
~Bernard Manning
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
~Warren Beatty
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
~Maggie Grace
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The silver swan, who, living had no note,
When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
~Orlando Gibbons
On a very personal note, my dear friend, the late Steve ‘Dr. Death’ Williams was a four-time amateur wrestling All-American who also lettered and started four years on the football team at Oklahoma. I’ve met no man walking the face of the earth tougher than Doc. R.I.P., my friend.
~Jim Ross
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I’m going to have some books, some I haven’t finished or haven’t read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
~Joanna Lumley
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If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn’t leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
~Julia Fox
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine’s Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, ‘I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.’ And I didn’t sign my name.
~Steve Carell
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I was so boisterous in high-school, I don’t think a lot of boys liked me that much ’cause they were like, ‘Oh, she’s so loud and so crazy.’ But then this thing happens in your late twenties, and guys begin to take note of women’s personalities more or something.
~Ali Wong
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Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I’ll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
~Ronnie Wood
‘Othello‘ is the most domestic of Shakespeare’s tragedies and the one that’s likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
~Andrew Davies
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
~Anne Boyd
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
~Anne Rice
I believe the core of most of us women is very simple. We want to feel appreciated, acknowledged, and something as simple as flowers with a little note or some love letters goes a long way.
~Yolanda Hadid
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A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, ‘My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch ‘Modern Family.’
~Eric Stonestreet
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words ‘gay community.’ Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
~Larry Kramer
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I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I’d move on.
~Devon Werkheiser
Everyone is different, but I’m not standoffish at all. I’m not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I’ll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer’s no, I’m totally cool with it.
~Corbin Bleu
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My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook – I was living in L.A. at the time – and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters.
~David Lowery
At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it’s chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor’s note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there’s something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.
~Meghan Markle
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Guys are not good under pressure. They’re just not good at multitasking, but on that note, we should be a bit less good at enabling them to, you know?
~Maria Cornejo
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I’m always asked how my husband is feeling about my success with a note of concern. He feels great. It’s not hard to feel good about your spouse making money.
~Ali Wong
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I’m not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.
~Amitava Kumar
I don’t know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I’ve done it to a fare-thee-well.
~Sally Mann
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My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn’t blow a note, so he suggested the guitar.
~Pete Townshend
…I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert ‒ which I would never think of doing otherwise ‒ that’s just the way it is. Even if I can’t hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
~Idina Menzel
My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don’t blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.
~Harshvardhan Rane
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don’t inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it’s the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
~Sam Waterston
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@Writers Platform
One day some years ago while reading Dombey and Son I came to Chapter 15, where, in the midst of the story, there were six words of exhortation and command: When found, make a note of. I reached for my notebook and made a note of Dicken’s note to make a note of what I had just found.
~Helen Smith Bevington
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
~Alexander Smith
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Books, I once noted grandly, embody the spirit’s dream of perpetual youth. What is important at these moments is not the contents of the books, but the idea of their existence. I have not read every one, nor is it likely that I will—but to know that I might!
~Sven Birkerts
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Fifty words is a strict form but if you write tiny and sneak over into the address side to squeeze in a hundred, the grace is gone and the result is not a poem but notes for a letter you don’t have time to write…
~Garrison Keillor
Wilde strikes an evangel note. It is a note that lifts itself through sorrow and slavery to joy and freedom. Puts seed in the ground. Into you. When a book stops doing that it is dead. No matter how pretty it may be as a corpse it is dead.
~Horace Traubel
I hear of many a latest book;
I note what zealous readers say;
Through columns critical I look,
With their decisive yea and nay!
At times I own I’m half inclined
O’er some new masterpiece to pore;
Yet in the end I always find
I choose the book I’ve read before!
~Charles R Ballard
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My second librarian position was in the vast brick buildings of Sears, Roebuck and Company, in 1911… No barriers limited what books we might give. One afternoon a note arrived by the pneumatic tube from a bubbling Irish girl in the bookkeeping division of the Grocery Department. It’s very slow here on this rainy day. Please send me one of those novels you have had to withdraw from circulation as unfit for a lady to read. Next day she returned the book, discretely wrapped, with this message. Blessings upon you! You are quite right. This is not fit for anybody to read. Please send another just like it.
~Althea Warren
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
~Richard Lugar
In the summer, if he had no engagements, he would frequently lie in the sun and have a book read to him, from whence he made notes and extracts; he read nothing without making extracts from it, as indeed this was his constant method whatever book he read — for it was a maxim of his that no book was so bad but something might be learned from it.
~Pliny the Younger (of Pliny the Elder)
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It was a mark of Samuel Johnson’s genius that, armed with references from 150 years of English writings, he was able, and essentially single-handedly, to find and note almost every use of every word of the day… He finished amassing his list of the English word stock in 1750. He spent the next four years editing the citations and choosing the 118,000 illustrative quotations (sometimes by committing the heresy of changing quotes he didn’t like).
~Simon Winchester
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Poets have immortalised the Pansy. But the Pansy of the poet and the Pansy of the florist differ somewhat. The Pansy freaked with jet is the poet’s flower. The subject of these notes is of roundest form, its markings distinctly defined, it’s eye without fault — the Pansy of the florist… To some it is known simply as heart’s-ease.
~R P Brotherston
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I found a little book of Emily Dickinson poems in a Boston book-shop in 1891, and for thirty years it has had a special shrine in my memory. She is almost totally ignorant of form, careless of rhyme and rhythm, writing verse with the disregard of rules which a child might display, but seeing things with the vividness of St. Catherine’s vision of her Lord in the sunset sky, and with the same intense note of realism in reporting what she sees. She can say in four lines what a poet of profound literary artifice, such as Browning, would have required many pages to express.
~W J Dawson
Her swift poetic rapture was like the long glistening note of a bird one hears in the June woods at high noon, but can never see. Like a magician she caught the shadowy apparitions of her brain and tossed them in startling picturesqueness…
~Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
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A semicomma, we should note, doesn’t exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn’t it?
~Richard Lederer and John Shore
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In every story I’ve written with Batman, there’s an element of justice ‒ you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
~Paul Dini
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
~Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
~Stephen McCauley
Although the story of George and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men‘ ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
~Jay Parini
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.
~Octavia E Butler
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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end ‒ the exact note ‒ but I couldn’t see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of ‘The Bear‘ as a hopeful book.
~Claire Cameron
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, ‘I’m OK, no worries!’
~Gillian Flynn
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I’m still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I’m walking down the street.
~Sam Hunt
I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn’t make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
~Lucy Dacus
The ‘I Wanna Dance‘ hook actually came to me when I was in bed and just in that lucid moment between consciousness and sleep… I jumped out of bed and recorded a voice note of the vocal hook and I went into the studio the next day fully inspired.
~Jonas Blue
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It’s kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I’ll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I’ll put it aside, but I’ll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it’s a magnet, almost, and eventually, there’s enough to make the story.
~Kim Edwards
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
~Margaret Heffernan
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
~Kami Garcia
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I’m surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
~Jenny Zhang
People say, ‘Oh, you’re doing the job of journalists.’ I think it’s very important to note that we can’t do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They’d be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.
~Seth Meyers
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Whenever I’ve had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author’s note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.
~Sharon Kay Penman
By the time I sit down ready to write, I’ve done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
~Jill McCorkle
In a short story, you can use someone ‒ we’re only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
~Rebecca Makkai
I do write long, long character notes – family background, history, details of appearance – much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~Anne Tyler
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
~Jenny Offill
Writing with Scissors (collecting, note-keeping, remaking)
~Peter Stillman
I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
~Andrew Scott
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Bookstores are emotional places both for their patrons and for the employees. They are built on the sweat and tears of hardworking people, each bookshelf lined with the lifework of hundreds of artists. Each of those books represent endless hours of grind and toil. Often the bookstore owner and employees are also writers. Is there a space with more fulfilled or unfulfilled dreams?
~Bob Eckstein (Introduction to Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores)
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
~Gabrielle Zevin
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
~Sherman Alexie
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Most of the noted literary men have indulged in the prudent habit of selecting favorite passages for future reference.
~Charles F Schutz,
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author’s permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
~Robert Benchley
For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.
~Uzodinma Iweala
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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone’s going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
~Garrett Hedlund
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I don’t shape trends, I’d say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on ‘them.’ I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge.
~Paul Muldoon
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn’t work.
~Karin Slaughter
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The man who writes a single line,
And hears it often quoted,
Will in his life time surely shine,
And be hereafter noted.
~Frederic Swartwout Cozzens
Shake was a dramatist of note;
He lived by writing things to quote.
~H C Bunner
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
~William Shakespeare
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Quoting is, by a stroke of the pen,
making memories of amassed wisdom
and books and famous thought,
pictures of the mind of a writer,
the essential oil of truth in a notebook,
a catalogue of wonder and the universe;
copying pure nuggets on every page —
wise men and women, sages honoured;
making abstracts — every drop, truth.
~Terri Guillemets
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.
~Thomas à Kempis
Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the tribe passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations. …The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is a book intended for our own times; its keynote is not familiarity, but aptness. It embraces the past in order to illustrate the present.
~Robert Andrews
A box, where sweets compacted lie…
~George Herbert [Context note: William Watson, 1883, uses this phrase to describe epigrams—tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
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Only the use of footnotes enables historians to make their texts not monologues but conversations, in which modern scholars, their predecessors, and their subjects all take part.
~Anthony Grafton
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
~Robert Falcon Scott (ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, Antarctica, 1912)
Words, — so innocent and powerless as they, as standing in a dictionary; how potent for good and evil they become to one who knows how to combine them!
~Nathaniel Hawthorne (note-books)
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Prewritten Prompt: note
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‘Religion,’ I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it’s from relegere, meaning ‘to reread‘, while others say it’s from religare, meaning to connect or link. Literature is life’s fastener.
~Joshua Cohen
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The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don’t think that that’s necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
~Jason Isbell
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We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years ‒ most of them within fifteen hundred years.
~Kenneth Scott Latourette
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
~Rudolf Steiner
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It’s interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
~Randall Terry
On a personal note, myself, I find religion ‒ I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it’s ludicrous.
~James Callis
I don’t believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it’s worthy of note.
~Harvey Fierstein
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Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Whether you like it or not, when you claim to be a Christian, the world takes note.
~Monica Johnson
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
~Beverly Sills
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I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
~Randy Pausch
What I’ve learned is there’s a scientifically proven phenomenon that’s attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
~Deborah Norville
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
~Francis Schaeffer
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
~Francis Hutcheson
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I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs… It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it’s like notes you pass in class. If someone’s passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you’re like, oh, ‘What are you doing?’
~Parker Posey
Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a picture in a frame has become a lost art because we are inclined to just do it all through technology.
~Natalya Neidhart
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
~Jami Attenberg
I can’t predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive – no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer’s life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
~Paul Theroux
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Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication ‒ it’s like passing a note ‒ and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
~Lynne Truss
The podcast ‘Note to Self‘ is ‘the tech show about being human’. Human notions of privacy have changed.
~David Hepworth
When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
~Jonathan Zittrain
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I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.
~Allison Williams
Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you’re like, ‘What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?’
~Jim James
I’m definitely a note taker.
~Marc Randolph
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People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
~Peter Thiel
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
~Ralph Merkle
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Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines – of molecular machines that are part of replicators – and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
~K Eric Drexler
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
~Vernor Vinge
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I didn’t know why I couldn’t sing ‒ all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson’s disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can’t sing a note.
~Linda Ronstadt
I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn’t put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn’t even know.
~Sharon Jones
On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don’t need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
~Molly Ivins
I cannot too often repeat that patients are generally either too languid to observe certain things, or too shy to speak about them. Again, I say, what is the nurse or friend there for except to take note of these things? If you cannot get the habit of observation one way or other, you had better give up the being a nurse, for it is not your calling, however kind or ardent you may be.
~Florence Nightingale
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It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio’s mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
~Louis Theroux
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
~Alfred Adler
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
~Vic Snyder
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
~Donald Norman
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Note to academics: Aristarchus’ track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun. (320 BC ‒ 210 BC)
~Seth Shostak
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
~Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 ‒ 1543)
It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.
~William John Wills (1834 ‒ 1861)
We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.
~Nikola Tesla (1856 ‒ 1943)
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
~Steve Wozniak (1950 ‒ )
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet – microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
~Nathan Wolfe
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She’d make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
~Valerie Simpson
I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.
~Catriona Gray
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
~Sophia Bush
I learn fast and I take note of what I’ve been told.
~Jay Kay
I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
~Angela Duckworth
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You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb… I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother’s signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.
~Graydon Carter
I wasn’t that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
~Barbara Park
The Professional Children’s School, it’s for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn’t really like school all that much.
~Kieran Culkin
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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
~William Glasser
At ‘The School of Life’, we take seriously anything that has to do with human fulfilment ‒ and take note wherever insight on this subject can be found.
~Alain de Botton
In many ways, ‘What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World‘ is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D’Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
~Taylor Mali
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The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not ‒ Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls’ education and women’s rights. So don’t support Malala, support her campaign for girls’ education and women’s rights.
~Malala Yousafzai
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
~Ovid
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§ The Exercise:
assured
love will end on a sad note
time will be the agent
and scene of the crime,
because it must
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newsual: rhymes w/ usual
noted bombastic
center stage fanatic
connection fantastic
going ballistic
think, up jurassic
no tact its only tactic
noetic spastic
scrambled phonetics
mob scene frenetic
lawyer frantic
newsreel dramatic
noteworthy, hectic
there’s some on the block
who think it’s a crock
thick as mud and a rock
more tick and less talk
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angsty ditties #27
not a note left to write
not a song worth a cry
now the day drawing nigh
dream the sweet by and by
life as quest without why
need a reason to try
need a cause to comply
grief as a power to reply
one light defined, the dark side denied
weaponize hope to an actionable size
pics posted of questionable fights
questions posed never edified
world getting worse quick on the sly
consider the low-road reasons to die
ponder with a puff and go with the high
chorus:
oh, the well has run dry
nothing good left to buy
knuckled fist to the eye
aye, it’s all gone awry
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of roads
Of roads we note these things:
— that not all roads traveled are apt to the eye
— that the road to discovery my survive the injury
of a timetable, or the insult of a destination,
but not both
— if there is sorrow over a road that separates,
that same road unites
— of the road that leads from legend can take you
home again
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some forgotten
the wounded and weary
the taken turned wary
reenacted with pageantry
lesser legends don’t vary
end viciously scary
maliciously gory
conspicuously dreary, or
deliciously contrary
yes there be places of shelter
relayed in stories more stellar
less wishful and starry-eyed
more wistful and rarefied
more storied less glorified
first-become-last horrified
bold endings that become some
sold out garden’s old wisdom
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A Simulation
Love as false as a SIMM phony chip?
Just read what it says on the card
Please check the accent to use
Note its author, the Bard
That’s not true, this is a ruse and abuse
Brad, Mr Bard, up in Marketing
Bad poetry, his escape and only thing
Poisonously bad is what makes it sing
You’ve tried the new AI?
We did, couldn’t get it right
Work that bad takes a dark genius
And our AI was much too bright
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@heaven’s gate
note the eighty eight and the 85 keys
the piano and spinet
rolling thunder to the one hand
articulate delicacy on the breeze
then having the haven accordion
accordingly requires but 41
each a voice for the pantheon
you get to pick one for your holy one
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5s ‘n 7s
green turned gold sun-fed pastures
patchwork fields textures captured
treetop games, wind-play raptures
wild sculpt crowns edge the skyline
marbled emeralds sunset time
forget love, there’s more sublime
note nature’s beauty, make it rhyme
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Of pressroom legends
Grave notes, news censorious
Brave Journalist Slain
Stopped the press and a bullet
World might guess she knew too much
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wayward dog roadside
asleep in the deep soft grass
but note the half-smile
easeful death waiting wayside
still chest at rest, peace at last
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note: pizzas can think
only sentience can talk
last piece called my name
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noteworthy newscap
nothing newsworthy happened
first yin then the yang
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Please note the straight lines
Ruled space for your convenience
Outliers at risk
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.
~Eva D Kellogg, May
It’s interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that’s what Earth is doing to us.
~Simon Toyne
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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
~Anne Roiphe
When you’re playing someone who drinks a lot, it’s not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you’re going to get from it. It’s like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.
~Jared Harris
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[H]e repeated very frequently and always with a profounder note of derision that exploded proverb: ‘In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King…’ Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds… either from coming out of the light or from going into the light…
~H G Wells
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
~Marilyn vos Savant
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I am all for greening tall buildings, but I’m also very keen to note that greening a building doesn’t cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.
~Joseph Rykwert
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It’s a city with buildings and towers and roads. There’s a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
~Tony Curtis
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For this hour, I ask you to ignore the surface-glamour of existence, the buzzing and jigging and vibration of small interests and excitements that form the tissue of our ordinary consciousness, and instead turn your attention to the profounder bass-note of life.
~William James
Sing with the heart, even if you cannot with the voice. It matters little how out of tune may be the external life, if the internal life is harmonious. It is said that high above the earth there is a point where all the noises of the world blend in one note.
~Howard W Tilton
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I continue to work on plays, but I’ve always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you’d have as much chance communicating with people.
~Lewis Black
When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.
~Amor Towles
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If you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you’ll quickly note that most of these invaders fit the Tinseltown mold. But you have to admit: the grays are highly anthropomorphic.
~Seth Shostak
I believe we have a double in every country. There’s something about that that is probably a commonness that we don’t make note of. That maybe there’s only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
~Richie Havens
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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
~Thomas Huxley
Love, hope, fear, faith ‒ these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
~Robert Browning
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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
Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.
~Kimora Lee Simmons
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