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“I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .”

World Trying Humans Human Beings Masters Notes Hardest Repeats Hardest Thing Musicianship

Author:Prince

“If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.”

Ifs Ideas Together Records Pieces Notes Combining

Author:George Carlin

“By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.”

Want May Two Law Opinion Drug Bases Murder Notes Patient Ill Supposed To Be Public Opinion Polls Request Opinion Polls Terminally Ill

Author:Dan Rather

“What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.”

Ifs Men Doe Real Soul Whole Three Simple Practice Honest Notes Lips Noble Trumpets Armstrong

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)”

Made Ideas Painting Photography Notes Dictionary Daguerreotypes

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies.”

Doe Enemy Notes Day Greetings Great Day Have A Good Day Have A Great Day

Author:Demetri Martin

“It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.”

Trying Play Helping Bigs Behinds Band Beats Clean Jazz Notes Steady Big Things Flexible Continuity Bops

Author:Charlie Parker

“A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.”

Ifs Kind Play Records Musician Notes Satisfied Swings Register Trumpets Gadgets Clarinet

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.”

Music Notes Poetry Is

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.”

“I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just to kinda flush it out there and put it on a page. And I started to do this, and I had an epiphany. I'll share this with you: a suicide note that is written by somebody that is not suicidal is called an autobiography. I am on Chapter 58.”

“When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.”

World Want Steps Notes Changing The World Retiring Good In The World

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.”

Way Play Saws Heard Style Sweet Notes Critics Phrases Something New Trumpets

Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.”

Ifs Sides Luck Notes Rest Of Your Life Good Luck Mcdonalds

Author:Chelsea Handler

“It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo, the pitch will fall, and vice versa. So you need to adjust these with your fingers.”

Want Needs Long Play Fall Natural Notes Fingers Vices Vice Versa Recorders

Author:Michala Petri

“It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.”

World Wells Important Perception Notes

Author:Michala Petri

“I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.”

Past Form Plans Land Century Fields Direct Connections Notes Decades Monument Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.”

Way Should Book Ends Use Hands Quality Land Design Products Unique Notes Instance Data Firm Collectors Arriving High Quality Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.”

People Giving Shows Bigs Challenges Notes Not Sure Contribution Unbelievable Cinematography

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.”

Want Done Given Comedy Notes Tone Sony

Author:Will Gluck

“To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.”

Thinking Giving Trying Bigs Differences Walks Cutting Notes Hey Intimate Imports

Author:Will Gluck

“That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts are coming in to give you notes then the more problems you run into and the more it suddenly doesn't seem like the movie, the story, the characters changed, watered down and we don't have that with this.”

Giving Character Stories Problem Inspiration Seems Running Changed Down And Notes

Author:Todd Farmer

“Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."”

Way Trying I Can Play Stage Band Okay Notes Mates Bass

Author:Alison Pill

“Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there every day, sitting there in the room with the editor. I lose perspective incredibly quickly, and so what I do is I watch...I come in the room and give very specific notes and then I go back to my house or in my office and I watch the dailies.”

Giving Stills House Loses Rooms Watches Perspective Directors Office Sitting Exciting Notes Very Good Editors

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.”

People Giving Two Hard Hands Three Tvs Amount Notes Scripts Executives Shocked Outlines

Author:Zak Penn

“I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.”

Thinking I Can Two Play Half Notes Bottom Range Horns Register Specialists High Notes

Author:Chet Baker

“Send her a quick note while you`re stuck in a long meeting. A lighthearted chat definitely makes the time go faster.”

Long Meetings Notes Stuck Faster

Author:Greg Behrendt

“Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.”

Self Sex Notes Blow Dolls Note To Self Dirty Work

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.”

Natural Alive Player Sweet Approach Unique Stress Jazz Notes Simplicity Tone Glorious Affinity Stylist Potency

Author:Oscar Peterson

“You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!”

Ifs Knows Rooms Five Dad Lows Notes Consent Drills

Author:David Spade

“From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.”

Moments Records Fronts Notes Notion Destroyed Features Site Tourists

Author:Martin Parr

“The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.”

Way Writing Courses Dad Window Notes My Dad Ties Bricks

Author:Christopher Titus

“here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.”

Television Materials Huge Amount Notes Presenting Workload Placating

Author:Louis C. K.

“I had a great experience at the [2011] World Cup. Unfortunately, we didn't end on the note we wanted to, but I still had an Amazing time representing our country and playing in front of thousands of fans.”

World Stills Ends Country Wanted Fans Fronts Notes Our Country Cups Representing World Cup Great Experiences

Author:Amy Rodriguez

“I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.”

Ifs Play Use Clean Notes Tongue Technique Articulation

Author:Paul Smoker

“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.”

People Knows Men Years Ends Home Lost Pleasure Party Streets Movement Months Decided Sight Notes Seven Following Stranger Traveled Seven Years Back Home Venice January

Author:Sophie Calle

“I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.”

Ifs Should Wells Form Should Have Notes Contact Sheets

Author:Willy Ronis

“What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.”

Trying Years Dream Conversation Notes Photograph Silver Offering Subconscious Fragments Salute Monologues Lucid Dreaming

Author:Eva Rubinstein

“I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.”

Firsts Jobs Three Names Differences Streets Wall Notes Tea Showers

Author:Ann Coulter

“I note that [Benazir] Bhutto demonstrates her own deep commitment to democracy by giving herself the title chairperson for life of the Pakistan Peoples Party.”

Giving Party Democracy Commitment Notes Titles Pakistan Bhutto

Author:Ann Coulter

“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.”

Thinking Writing Facts Situation Couple Mets Notes Queens Delightful Courtesy Thank You Note

Author:Jools Holland

“I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.”

My Own Notes Chords

Author:Tommy Bolin

“Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.”

Matter Play Running Notes Before And After

Author:Tommy Bolin

“Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.”

Form Certain Effects Notes Alcohol Sugar Carbon Liquid Encyclopedia Fermentation

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.”

People Play Sound Notes Tempo

Author:Lester Bowie

“All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.”

Trying Kids Music Is Notes Theme Bees Seventies Variation Bee Gees

Author:John Lennon

“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.”

Thinking Book Ends Light Seems Life Is Novel Wonderful Shadow Garden Notes Finals Conclusion Pessimism Closing Hearted Light Hearted Life Is Wonderful

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.”

Thinking Ideas Artist Certain Quality Notes Simplicity Complexity

Author:Patrick Stump

“When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.”

Giving Heart Speak Waiting Prayer Praying My Heart Notes Theology Accomplished Shut Up Pencils Notebook Eloquent Prayer Life

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.”

Thinking Want Different Play Whole Sound Term Forget Interesting Raises Notes Setting Bunch Settings Pedals

Author:Mike Gordon

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