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Bach on the wrong notes.

—Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich

Unintelligible, the borrowings cheap and the notes useless.

—Lucas, F(rank) L(awrence)

The dark notes rose everywhere, so dark, so sombre, they broke into a fountainölight as the rainbowö sparkling and immaterial as invisible sources and echoes. The savannahs grew lonelyas the sea and broke again into a wave and forest. Tall trees with black marching boots and feet were clad in the spurs and sharp wings of a butterfly.

—Harris, Rolf

With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured thro'the mellow horn her pensive soul.

—Collins,William

Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercelyas if they had never happened before; likethelarksinthis country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

—Cather,Willa Sibert

It's just music.It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes.

—Parker, Charlie known as  'Bird'

She looked like a million dollars, I must admit, even if in well-used notes.

—Carter, Angela Olive

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

—Blake,William

Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notesöah, that is where the art resides.

—Schnabel, Artur

Through breaks of the cedar and sycamore bowers Struggles the light that is love to the flowers; And, softer than slumber and sweeter than singing, The notes of the bell-birds are running and ringing. The silver-voiced bell-birds, the darlings of daytime! They sing in September their songs of the May-time.

—Kendall, Henry Clarence

There is nothing to it.You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

—Bach,Johann Sebastian

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

—Milton,John

Deathbed utterances, like suicide notes, are a powerful coinage, stamped byan awareness that words can outlive us.

—Plout, David

Oceanracing islikestandingundera coldshower tearing up »5 notes.

—Hearst,William Randolph

There are only twelve notes.You must treat them carefully.

—Hindemith, Paul

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. Theserough notes andourdead bodiesmusttell thetale.

—Scott, Robert Falcon

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

—Wordsworth,William

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and longö The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

—Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)

   Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right† I want it that way.

—Iverson, Allen