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“The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.”

Firsts Stills Play Sound Roots Notes Checks

“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.”

World Stills Ends Play Left Jazz Notes Listeners Gallery

Author:Carla Bley

“There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.”

People Made Differences Products Internet Grateful Notes Classic Contribution Charitable Heartwarming

Author:Mitchell Baker

“You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.”

Should Language Interesting Originals Notes

Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“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.”

Thinking Way Want Whole Performances Notes Edges Bores Backbone Skeletons

Author:Casey Abrams

“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.”

People Want Play Sound Terrible Rivers Notes Noise Electric Rakes

Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night hit all the right notes, but this fight is not about him. He's just the vessel. Now the question is, does this guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who thinks the private sector is doing fine get another four years?”

Thinking Trying Years Doe Lasts Night Guy Fighting Four Subjects Fine Periods Speech Election Notes Democrat Barack Four Years This Guy Last Night Vessel Private Sector Pennsylvania

Author:Howie Carr

“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.”

Ifs Writing Children Kids Wanted School Notes Auditions

Author:Kieran Culkin

“I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.”

Want Kind Reason Stories Might Christian Moral Ethics Notes Impart Christian Ethics

Author:Neko Case

“Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.”

Years Wealth Years Ago Gold Notes Bars Fifty Coins Certificates

Author:Scott D. Cook

“I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Years Book Stories Deals Successful Records Becoming Understood Notes Crafts Executives Rejected Songwriters Publishers High Notes

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.”

Mean Sometimes Bigs Artist Sound Voice Notes Tricky

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.”

Feels Two Three Difficult Angry Notes Tense

Author:Anthony Daniels

“But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.”

Ifs Reading Interesting Cutting Easier Directors Notes Finals Studios Executives Interesting Things

Author:Griffin Dunne

“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.”

Character Humanity Difficult Interesting Notes Solve Evolve Sunny

Author:Hope Davis

“When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.”

Men Feels Asks Special Love You Notes

Author:Lyndsy Fonseca

“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.”

People Writing Enough Play Wanted Notes Piano

Author:Luc Ferrari

“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.”

Way Body Film Certain Voice Behinds Nice Lows Notes Your Body

Author:Will Friedle

“Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.”

Whole Use Used Memories Claims Absolutes Notes Excuse Dialogue Suspects Tape Recalls Recorders Truman Prodigious

Author:Joshua Foer

“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!”

Way Done Actors Lost Left Space Careers Notes Profession Highlights Cameos Space Movie

Author:Mark Goddard

“The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.”

Reading Greater Reader Notes Entertainment Compliment

Author:Jeff Abbott

“She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.”

Play Quality Sticks Notes Guitar Tongue Likes Throat

Author:Bob Dylan

“Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.”

Looks Turns Next Asks Nature Flower Balls Notes Next Time Unattractive Dandelions Fluff

Author:Robert Wright

“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?'”

People Knows Writing Seems Wanted Guy Know How Willing Directors Letters Notes Obsessed This Guy Cheesy Handwritten Letters Handwritten Notes

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“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.”

Writing Wells Use Direct Notes Ruins Analysis Rely Silk Silk Road

Author:Ted Rall

“I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.”

Love You Strange Bed Notes Shoes Pairs Infidelity Adultery Pair Of Shoes

Author:Huey Lewis

“Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.”

Stills Matter Might Running Earth Moving Science Desire Religion Sun Risk Position Notes Propositions Theologian Heretic

Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

“May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.”

May Moments Seems Joy Time Hours Sweet Murder Wings Notes Delight Silver Bells Chimes Silver Bells

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)

“Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is not perceived. But if they are looked on as notes or Images, referred to Things or Archetypes existing without the Mind, then are we involved all in Scepticism.”

Ifs Mind Science Known Figures Involved Notes Colour Sensations Extensions Archetype Scepticism

Book:Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

“One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.”

Way Writing Night Novel Written Notes Nine Chapters One Word

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.”

Soul Heaven Instruments Notes Your Soul Explanation Vibrations Navigate Heaven Sent

Author:Kanye West

“Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.”

Next Found Notes Rejection Goodbye Next Day

Author:David Gates

“When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.”

Ifs Whole Records Too Much Cutting Stage Keys Goes On Notes Tone Over It

Author:Ray Davies

“When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.”

Giving Writing Together My Own Pleasure Involved Giving Up Notes Occasions Remarks

Author:Tom Glazer

“In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.”

Different Whole Generations Style Right Now Notes Present Time Different Styles

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.”

Ifs Mean Doe Play Guy Language Can Do Practice Player Paper Instruments Notes Sheets Vans Van Halen

Author:Frank Iero

“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.”

Want Kind Character Actors Movement Notes

Author:Jeffrey Jones

“From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.”

Reading Steps Sight Notes Response Terror Improvement Session Rabbits Disturbance Positive Response

Author:Mary Cover Jones

“When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.”

People Way Writing Given Theater Notes Screens Posts Continuing Desks Post It Notes

Author:Maureen Johnson

“I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.”

Writing Dad Green Notes My Dad Decades Notebook Leather

Author:Nicole Krauss

“I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.”

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Author:Jay Kay

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