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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

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

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

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

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

Music is the break between two notes. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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