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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are no wrong notes. — Miles Davis

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes. — John McLaughlin

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that ... — Carlos Santana

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound. — Caroline Shaw

Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on. — Suzy Kassem

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music. — Lola Kirke

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. — Jonah Lehrer

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. — Eduard Hanslick

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage. — Mary Hughes

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them. — Ella Leya

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. — Edward Gardner

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. — Ellen J. Barrier

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them. — Ben Folds

Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite. — Anais Nin

Music is in the space between the notes. — Claude Debussy

Iris, if you were a melody ... piano melody. I used only the good notes. — Jack Black

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. — Sarah Tomp

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward. — Joe Pass

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. — Gustav Mahler

Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people! — Michele Jennae

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them — Karl Lagerfeld

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music. — Glenn Kotche

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. — Thelonious Monk

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music. — Emma Donoghue

Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! — Nadia Boulanger

At the bottom of all music you have to hear the tune without notes, made just for us, the tune of Death. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Music is the break between two notes. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money. — Brian Wilson

I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. — AraabMuzik

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page
they sing a song. — Sarah McCoy

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. — Pablo Casals

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. — Walter Savage Landor

It's the space you put between the notes that make the music. — Massimo Vignelli

In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he'd written became known as neumes. — Louise Penny

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes. — Ornette Coleman

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes. — Clarice Lispector

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. — Johann Sebastian Bach

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own. — Aubrey Thomas De Vere

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. — Gloria Naylor

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. — Bryant McGill

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. — Toru Takemitsu

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time. — John Ruskin

Music is the silence between the notes. — Claude Debussy

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. — Eva Ibbotson

You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way. — Mitch Albom

He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song. — A.G. Howard

The songs we sing to each other are statements. An ongoing discussion in music notes. — Jasinda Wilder

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. — Sting

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is. — Isaac Stern

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist. — Victor Wooten

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely. — Christine Baranski

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra. — Kane Freeman

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit ... because without spirit, music is just notes. — Steve Turre

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. — Anthony Daniels

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. — Luka Sulic

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind — Jeff Beck

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can. — Jose Mourinho

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all! — Victor L. Wooten

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal. — Esi Edugyan

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it]. — Hans Rosling

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. — James McKean

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot. — Nadia Boulanger

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated. — Herbert Von Karajan

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage. — Robert Caro

Never lose the groove to find a note. — Victor Wooten

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. — John Lennon

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes. — Charlie Parker

Those who love you the most, let you bend your notes — Paresh Shah

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws

Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. — Jennifer Niven

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. — Petra Haden

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. — Claude Debussy

There's no such thing as a wrong note. — Art Tatum

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking. — Leon Redbone

Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music. — Winston Graham

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people. — Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

Those who love you the most, let yo bend your notes — Paresh Shah