Quotes About Music

There isn't one album that says 'Hall & Oates.' It's always 'Daryl Hall and John Oates.' From the very beginning. People never note that. The idea of 'Hall & Oates,' this two-headed monster, this thing, is not anything we've ever wanted or liked.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete.

It is disappointing to note that you no longer find enough of melodious music in Malayalam films.

I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

Perhaps the number of new hits is not being noted the way it was done in the era of records or cassettes with the emergence of Internet.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.