#notes

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#guitar #how #i #i can #make

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead. ↗

— Kenny G

#ahead #already #always #anticipate #area

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#beautiful #beautiful things #feel #i #i love

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#admired #arnold #bennett #deathbed #father

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#drafts #early #heard #his #i

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 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