I've always felt like every note of a song is of equal value.
To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.
Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!
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.
I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.
That's why I love music so much. It completely saved me. There are so many feelings you can't explain, and you can hear one note on a guitar and somehow that sound explains what you can't put into words.
When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.
Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see. . . Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school. . . Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege. . . We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.
I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.
Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 911]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.
I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.
Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.
Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it".
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note. . . . Here he laid a hand on my shoulder, and I can't remember when I have experienced anything more unpleasant. Apart from what Jeeves would have called the symbolism of the action, he had a grip like the bite of a horse. "Did you say 'Oh yes?'" he asked. "Oh no," I assured him.