Quotes About Music

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more '60s-'70s kind of style, and I write very '60s-'70s.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

I still struggle with my low notes. It's just always been something for me: I'm not a low singer. I have a really high voice.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

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.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

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

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

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

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

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

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.