Notes Quotes - Page 17

• There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.

  Bruce Molsky

  Air, Hands, Voice

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• The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

  Brian Eno

  Simple, Piano, White

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

  Debbie Macomber

  Struggle, Writing, Long

  Source: bookpage.com

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• My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mother, Blood, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

  George Carlin

  Play, Mind, Television

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Remembrance, Needs

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• Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, College

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• The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.

  Keith Rabois

  Way, Scales, Company

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• Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.

  Emmett Shear

  Play, People, Magic

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• I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Luxury, People, Creative

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

  Franny Armstrong

  Vacation, Stories, Computer

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

  Pope Francis

  Kings, Honor, Phrases

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the [Cube] project.

  Scott Cohen

  Kids, Hands, Cubes

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• I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

  Nick Earls

  Writing, People, Stories

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing.

  Sam Bush

  Hands, Mind, Singing

  Source: www.mandolincafe.com

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• I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area. Voice actors are all too often presented with a wad of XL sheets, no proper character notes, context or reference and are just expected to perform.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Character, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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• When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.

  Wale

  Real, Reading, Cards

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Different, Valleys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.

  Big Boi

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  "Big Boi Welcomes Us to the World of Luscious Left Foot". Interview with Dave Maher, pitchfork.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Media, Bjp

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• One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.

  Tony Kushner

  Jobs, Thinking, Things I Love

  "OSCARS Q&A: Tony Kushner". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. December 16, 2012.

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• Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.

  Aaron Zigman

  Sleep, Needs, Pieces

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• Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Tone, Vogue

  "EMMYS: Kevin Costner On 'Hatfields & McCoys'". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted to be. What's so bad about that? My own notion is I wish sex work would be decriminalized (not legalized, please note the distinction) so that more trannies could get into the field if they wanted to and not get into trouble for it.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Wish, Would Be

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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