Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
Never lose the groove to find a note.
I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note)
Every note has to come out clean.
Note to self. . . Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough. . . I missed a note there. . . I'm a half-step off on the turnaround. "
All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.