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“I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.”

“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Littles Jobs Sound Loses Millions Notes Dare Who I Am Like Me Sensitive Accents

Author:Jack McBrayer

“But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.”

Ifs Feels Able Sound Loses Deals Environment Notes Definitions Momentum

Author:Dennis Brown

“The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.”

Heart Lasts Remember Left Sound Hurt Terrible Notes Emptiness Rabbits Detachment Symphony Numbness Blankness

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.”

Giving Wells May Order Understanding Sound Ears Harmony Notes Strikes Proportion Pace Spheres

Author:Thomas Browne

“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.”

Way Different Sound Brain Heard Possibility Majors Thirds Harmony Mathematics Notes Scales Opening Mathematical Realms Tunes His Love Brilliance Music Love Intervals

Author:Ru Freeman

“Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.”

May Different Sound Inspire Masters Harmony Notes Silent Humble Gentle Awake Exalted

Author:Abraham Cowley

“Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.”

Heart Universe Sound Notes Mystic

Book:The last of England

Source: The last of England

“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”

“Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.”

Sound Love Is Common Raises Notes Tone Fiery

Author:William Carlos Williams

“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

May Book Enough Would Be Reading Sound Rooms Powerful Imagine Prove Elements Music Is Sitting Notes Foolish Mysterious Agents Atmosphere Piano Belittle

Book:What to Listen For in Music

Source: What to Listen For in Music

“Amis is acutely, vibrantly sensitive to the different registers of laughter. He knows that it can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound, and also the most sinister and animalistic one. He understands every note of every octave that separates the liberating shout of mirth from the cackle of a bully or the snigger of a sadist.”

Knows Humans Book Different Language Sound Laughter Notes Sensitive Bully Liberating Register Sinister Mirth Affirming Animalistic

Author:Martin Amis

“Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.”

“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”

Long Matter Age Causes Sound Numbers Poet Fit Tragedy Faults Notes Musical Delight Invention Prime Italian Quantity Verses Rejected Rhyme Wretched Avoided Meter Lame Syllables Oratory

Author:John Milton

“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”

Humans Made Whole Light Sound Known Notes Boots Bells Festivals Joyous Merry Bishops Grim Harshness Highwaymen

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.”

Ifs Trying Kind Mean Littles Bits Process Sound Path Students Expression Masters Little Bit Notes Strikes Evolve Grades New Things Trying New Things Maestro

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Enough Sound Pieces Approach Picks Okay Ears Notes Musical Scripts Rhythm Intonation

Author:Rob Reiner

“When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.”

Writing Years School Mother Sound Perfect Taught Harmony Notes Musical Noise Homework Transfers Music Education Musical Notes

Author:Yoko Ono

“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving May Moments Hands Sound Chance Accepting Music Birth Musician Jazz Notes Leaving Tiny Holes Impression Intense Bitter Melody

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”

Lying Sound Perfection Hot Notes Delight Paradise Bitterness Imperfect Stubborn Flawed

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails”

Littles Sound Music Musician Notes Fishes Scales Tails Down The Road

Author:Louis MacNeice

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”

Writing Sometimes Sound Natural Talking Keys Singing Difficulty Harmony Notes Odd Melody Perfectly Natural

Author:Elvis Costello

“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.”

Ifs Humans Use Body Hands Together Sound Voice One Thing Air Arms Training Thirds Notes Working Together Frequency Violin Fiddle Human Voice Timbre

Author:Bruce Molsky

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