#notes

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fragments #intimate-notes #letters #marilyn-monroe #poems

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#come #commission #i #know #new

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

I gotta take notes when things occur to me. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #me #notes #occur #take

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#around #deal #definition #environment #feel

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ↗

— Robert Frost

#love #love affair #never #never take #notes

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot! ↗

— Dane Cook

#christina #hot #just #notes #sing

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it. ↗

— Ville Valo

#chord #combination #covering #covers #heart