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"Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will"
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"It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes."
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"I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest."
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"Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible."
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"There are no wrong notes."
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"I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money."
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"I'll note you in my book of memory."
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"To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is."
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"Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear."
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"The script is simply a series of notes for the film."
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"With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
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"For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them."
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"It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over."
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"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
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"There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ"
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