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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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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.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Sound, Band

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, African American, Jazz

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

  Robert Caro

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet

  "Music, Visualized". Coast Weekend, May 24, 2012.

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• To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Real, Wife, Choices

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• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

  William Christopher Handy

  Song, Symphony, Bird

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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

  Toru Takemitsu

  Paper, Able, Emotion

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• Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Running, Gold, Panic

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• Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Years, Lifetime

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• I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

  Bruce Bennett

  Writing, Film, Boxes

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• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  Gary Cherone

  Hitting, Range, Vans

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• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  Ornette Coleman

  Color, Gdp, Titles

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

  Luc Ferrari

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Analysis, Use

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

  Robin Trower

  Running, Play, Feelings

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• Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

  Eydie Gorme

  Voice, Lows, Changed

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• If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

  Franz Kafka

  Journal, Ifs

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• 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

  Song, Work, Careers

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• The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Past

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I move on as quickly as possible. I tend to be really hard on myself anyway, which is great for work ethic and such, but sometimes outcomes are just out of your control and there was nothing you could've done anyway. If I'm at fault, I make note and do my best to try again. "No" isn't really a word I understand.

  Ashley Rickards

  Moving, Work Ethic, Trying

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• You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Four, Knows

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• Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Said, Knows, Has Beens

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 1

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• I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

  Sam Keen

  Voice, Events, Each Day

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

  Judith Guest

  Writing, Space, Brain

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Music, Piano, Notes Music

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.493, Wordsworth Editions

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