I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.

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

I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

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

In a digital age, I still love sending and receiving cards, hand-writing notes, and wrapping gifts.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

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

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

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

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

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

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

I used to get notes from directors, 'Please, Nigel, smile at the curtain calls.' I hate them so much.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

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

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

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

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I was never a good student. But I wrote acting notes every day and prepared for my next shoots diligently.

I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.

I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.

When I sing, there is an almost constant struggle with pitch and with reaching notes in the higher register.

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