Notated Quotes

#1. I do nothing all day, but I am tired. Lethargy has settled into me. I feel slack and languid. Does this mean I am starting to accept this life?

David Ely

#2. Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Pierre Schaeffer

#4. If you are not in charge of your life, who is?

Val Edward Simone

#5. A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.

Cornelius Cardew

#6. I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don't worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

Jamie Foxx

#7. If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

Beck

#8. I'm going to do more movies and travel.

Tommy Wiseau

#9. When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life - well, if you don't know where it is or what it is, you'll be sorry.

Joseph Campbell

#10. Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#11. However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I put down my phone ... Hugged her from behind ... Kissed the back of her neck ... Our fingers entwined ... Bliss ...

Steve Maraboli

#13. Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

Nicola Yoon

#14. You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

Jay Samit

#15. Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.

Gillian Flynn

#16. It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there have been occasions where I feel that a composer has not notated something as they meant to have it represented.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#17. When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

DJ Spooky

#18. Who would have imagined," he said, "when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had just become the luckiest man in all of Russia.

Amor Towles

#19. If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

Roman Payne

#20. I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

Guy Pearce