“When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.” KindPlayKidsDoorsNotesScalesUnusualBentGuitarist Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.” WorldWritingMadeSometimesProgressNotesGenderBehavePolitically CorrectFuture World Author:Edan Lepucki
“Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.” NeedsShouldDoeNotesNeed A Change Author:Ronee Blakley
““I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” is a hard song to perform, I was worried that I was not going to reach that significant note that is at the end of the song. Thank god, Steven loved it! He was the nicest and friendliest judge that I have met. He also invited me to chat with him whether I had free time on the Idol set.” WantEndsHardSongLaughingMissingJudgingMetsNotesSignificantWorriedThank GodIdolsInvitedFree Time Author:Jessica Sanchez
“It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.” EnoughLaughingNiceMusic IsEssenceNotesSincerityFrankMake Me LaughMake You LaughZappa Author:Gail Zappa
“Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.” StillsEventsTrumpNotesHearingHitting Author:Don Gonyea
“There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.” KnowsWritingWholeStoriesRunningBeautifulLawGuyNamesTypePrisonNotesCaughtThis GuyEscapingParagraphCarlson Author:Pam Houston
“Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."” LongWould BeHouseSidesVoiceLessonsMy FamilyLet MeNotesSingersScreamJohnson Author:Eddie George
“I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.” KnowsWritingKindMatterDreamForgetFantasyFiveNotesExtraordinarySellingShockingOutrageousUnforgettableErodeOutlandish Author:Melissa Febos
“For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.” YearsScenePagesNotesCriticalPassagesFragmentsDiariesNotebookAgitationAnecdotesRant Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.” IfsThinkingFirstsPersonsDoeStillsBookEndsCharacterFemaleNotesEmpoweringPrivilegedFirst PersonMain Characters Author:Kate Zambreno
“You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.” KnowsWayWellsHas BeensCharacterFilmAnswersForeverNotesKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.” DifferentPlayHomeAbleSchoolFoundHouseSoundNotesPianoFascinatingThesis Author:Ella Henderson
“I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.” WritingKindTwoPlayAgeSchoolTogetherUsedThreeTeachingNotesSevenSongwritingChordsUsed To LoveWriting Poems Author:Ella Henderson
“I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.” LittlesPersonsNotesRomantic Person Author:Shailene Woodley
“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?” ArtPowerfulConsciousnessMoralPossibilityPersonalityLimitsDegreesRaisesNotesSavingWorks Of ArtDoomedRepetitionRefrainHazardsPossibility Of ChangeMoral Hazard Author:Adam Ross
“Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansKindHas BeensStillsDifferentStoriesLastsCoursesVoiceSleepPowerfulMorningNovelCuttingElementsToolsNotesNotionRadioStorytellingMediumsNarrativeNovelistsLogicalShiftingHuman Voice Author:Daniel Alarcon
“I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange.” ThinkingWritingImportantFormTakenPaperNotesGrantedCommodityEmergenceTaken For GrantedExchangingConvergencePaper Money Author:Marina Warner
“I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse conditions than anything that's portrayed commonly in media/what I experienced.” SexWhiteClassMiddleConditionsMediaNotesWorkersMiddle ClassUpper Middle Class Author:Marie Calloway
“One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.” ThinkingShouldWritingLooksHomeWantedSchoolPastGivenParentWonderOne ThingChildhoodDevelopmentNegativeImpactNotesIntellectMy ThoughtsAbsentMy PastBulliedPast ExperiencesHome LifeFreedom To ReadChildhood Home Author:Marie Calloway
“Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.” MillionsTrumpReaderMembersNotesRacistLiarsEnteringBullyBansSerials Author:Ryan Grim
“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.” IfsTryingStoriesTermEmotionalNotesStrikesToneCrucialPacing Author:Kevin Keck
“I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.” WantedNotesCaught Author:Gabriel Mann
“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.” IfsTryingSometimesHardDoneMovingEthicsFaultsNotesOutcomesWork EthicTry Again Author:Ashley Rickards
“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindStillsTwoImportantTogetherSongWeekNeededBandLaysNotesAlbumsWorthyLocksBassTwo WeeksStellaDrum And Bass Author:Theresa Wayman
“I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.” SchoolMotherNightHolyNotesChoirHigh PointsHoly Night Author:Toni Morrison
“If you don't practice for three days, everyone will notice." It's something you have to really maintain. So unfortunately, I don't play it that often but I may take it up again. If you don't play for a while, you just can't hit the notes. It's like going to the gym. If you go and do weights, you can lift x amount of weight and if you don't go for ages, you've gotta start again and start from the beginning. So it's a bit like that. It's just a muscle.” IfsMayPlayAgeThreeBitsPracticeAmountWeightNotesLiftsMusclesGym Author:Douglas Booth
“I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.” PeopleBelieveStuffFocusNotesBreathing Author:Jazmine Sullivan
“You have to be very cautious that you're hitting the right beats and making sure it's funny, but at the same time when those notes are serious, you're trying to get your point across and it's not about the comedy.” TryingComedySeriousBeatsNotesHittingCautious Author:LeToya Luckett
“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.” MenWorldWritingYearsBookWarMotherFoundStudyViolenceWrittenHe ManEgoCreatingNotesGreedFeministTensionPakistanCleaningTrunksCleaning UpLahore Author:Vandana Shiva
“I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.” WritingTryingYearsChildrenBookNotesMusicalAverageDetermineEightProducersCampsSensibility Author:Charles Busch
“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."” GivingFirstsWellsLittlesSaidTwoIdeasMomentsLosesLinesChanceAnswersFailingCallingAreasFairsMeetingsNotesAncientExcuseCuteExecutivesPrincessThey SaidEgyptTelephonesEgyptianExcuse MeJuvenileAncient EgyptBeetlesSidekicksMy Fair LadyVery Cute Author:Charles Busch
“I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.” ThinkingTryingLittlesImportantHappensLinesInterestingNotesJust OneHere And ThereOne Line Author:Courtney Barnett
“My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.” WholeViewsFilledNotesScriptsPoint Of ViewWhole Picture Author:Geena Davis
“I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.” WayHateEnjoyPiecesFansFrontsI HateNotesDigitalCrapFilesStreaming Author:Charlie Benante
“Trios aren't really geared for slide unless you're gonna play chords, or play that simple George Thorogood style. It gets pretty thin when you play single note lines.” PlayLinesSimpleStyleNotesChordsSlidesTrios Author:James Hetfield
“Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.” PeopleWantUseWantedPleasureMoralGraceDutyMoralityConceptsNotesEaseDimensionsAesthetic Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.” PhilosophyDifferencesTraditionNotesWesternPhilosopherAccessPreparationAsianSimilarity Author:Jay L. Garfield
“I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.” PeopleStoriesUseSeemsUsedSituationWeekStructureNotesDesperatePencilsFistsBotheredPads Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe.” IfsKindRealityWould BeUniverseForceExistenceTheoryNotesMusicalMetaphorScoreStringsParticlesVibrationsForces Of NatureString TheoryMusical Notes Author:Brian Greene
“Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.” PeopleThinkingPlayMightCausesResultsFictionWonderPossibilityAccountsNotesDetailsCarefulAppreciationDeeperMedicalCandidatesPreciseSymptomsAmbiguityBrillianceCholera Author:Philip Kitcher
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based on wishes and hopes rather than reality, on inspiring stories rather than systematic social science, and on "oughts" rather than "is."” ThinkingBookStoriesRealityWishSocialJokesNotesSystematicSocial ScienceWishes And HopesInspiring Stories Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.” PhilosophyComedySpecialApproachAgreeNotesPerformingDisagree Author:Andy Daly
“This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing.” ReasonPiecesEventsDemandDestructionClaimsNotesSilentTerrorStatementsBloody Author:Edward Said
“I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.” HandsWrittenNotesIphone Author:Sue Tompkins
“I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.” I CanStuffSoundRocksKeysCoupleBeatsArmyYeahNotesFranceGiantsVocalTypewritersGaryReally Deep Author:Margaret Cho
“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.” WorldYearsMeanWholePastSongProcessEnjoyVoiceChallengesAcceptingGoneFourFieldsPeriodsYears AgoNotesCriticalAround The WorldRangeFour YearsJoyful Author:Joan Baez
“An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.” KnowsFeelsKindPlayHomeBigsSchoolSongProcessNumbersKnow HowExampleNotesDetailsUnbelievableRehearsalJasonMy BoyfriendMattressesSchool Plays Author:Sarah Steele
“I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.” IfsKnowsPlayCertainLanguageEqualNotesWork OutPianoTemperamentChordsKeyboards Author:Aphex Twin