#note

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won! ↗

— Cheech Marin

#battle #comedy #did #first #gig

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#every #humans #imperfect #jazz #life

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#berlin #discovered #dynamic #false #famous

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#favorite #going #i #i do #just

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#careful #carry #field #i #keep

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do? ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#audition #auditioning #character #get #hate

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#find #hear #hit #i #i can

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#i #notebooks #writing #years

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#controls #difficult #element #fewer #higher

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

— John McLaughlin

#integral #interaction #interplay #music #notes