Top 280 Note Quotes

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
Daniel Barenboim
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
Count Basie
One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the ‘compass metric’ because it will be your compass for growth. It’s important to note that ‘compass metrics’ will likely change over the lifetime of a business.
Tobias Lutke
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.
John Oates
I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won’t See Me from Rubber Soul.
Benmont Tench
The year 2016 was a year of revolutionary event, a year of great change, worthy of note in the history of our Party and country.
Kim Jong-un
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, ‘I’m OK, no worries!’
Gillian Flynn
She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwrit

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
Jami Attenberg
On a personal note, I think it won’t be until after I’ve retired that I’m fully aware of what I’ve done or what I’ve gone on to achieve in my career.
Lionel Messi
I love music, but can’t hold a note in a bucket. I can’t sing, can’t play an instrument.
Zoya Akhtar
No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can’t completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn’t do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it’s better.
Leslie Caron
I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they’re verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they’re happening.
Roz Chast
And I’ve made it a choice on my records that sometimes I leave the breath or the trailing note that sometimes falls into a flat or a sharp.
Gregory Porter
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
Don Mattingly
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
Barry Ritholtz
Ever since I was 16, I’ve had this lower register, what I thought was a very manly voice, and I was insecure about that. But once I started acting more, I realized it was an asset, and I didn’t want to force myself to aim for the highest note possible.
Selena Gomez
The Professional Children’s School, it’s for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn’t really like school all that much.
Kieran Culkin
Although the story of George and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men’ ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
Jay Parini
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland
I am not striking any note. I am just putting the facts before the people, that it is the Pakistan Army which is spreading terror in India, sending terrorists to Punjab, and I won’t stand for it.
Amarinder Singh
I can hold a note, but that’s about it.
Savion Glover
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons
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.
Robin Trower
I was messing around with the harmonica… but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
Muddy Waters
Shortly after assuming the role of senior adviser in the Trump White House, world leaders began to take note of Ivanka Trump’s ability to engage in diplomacy effectively – a skill she has consistently used to help benefit women in the workplace.
Kayleigh McEnany
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
Gore Vidal
‘I Just Might Pray’ by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. ‘I Just Might Pray’ is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for ‘I Just Might Pray’ is absolutely adorable.
Ben Lovett
I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.
Jim Evans
I tell students, ‘If you are learning from YouTube I almost don’t want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.’ They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.
Kiri Te Kanawa
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.
Charles Petzold
People say, ‘Oh, you’re doing the job of journalists.’ I think it’s very important to note that we can’t do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They’d be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.
Seth Meyers
I leave a $100 bill and a note to the housekeeper at every hotel I’ve ever been in. It’s important to write that they’re recognized and appreciated.
Jim Irsay
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they’re currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
Michelle Dean
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can’t play ‘Swanee River’ on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
Eugene Chadbourne
I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don’t hear it then I can’t feed myself.
Michael Schenker
You don’t need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action – whether being prepared to be jailed as a conscientious objector or putting your life on the line by joining the resistance – creates a sense of meaning when society faces a huge challenge.
Claire Fox
I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I’m blue in the face… because I have such a big lung capacity.
Jessica Simpson
A lady passed me a note in Australia one time that said, ‘My daughter gets bullied at school because she has two moms, and you know, we told her just to tell them to watch ‘Modern Family.’
Eric Stonestreet
I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs… It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it’s like notes you pass in class. If someone’s passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you’re like, oh, ‘What are you doing?’
Parker Posey
Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it’s three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it’s five sentences – that’s me. I like to pare away words because I don’t want to waste anyone’s time.
Bill Callahan
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
Alfred Kastler
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
Twinkle Khanna
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
Boman Irani
I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don’t consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to call myself a supplier of words rather than a lyricist.
Anoop Menon
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
Max Heindel
To be honest, I haven’t really put much thought into the fact that I am the first woman on a commercial vehicle. I expect to be the first of many, and look forward to the day that we don’t have to note such events.
Shannon Walker
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
Vanessa Carlton
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
Serge Schmemann
One of the best things you can do to get on an engineer’s good side is make him feel as much like a regular person as possible, without insulting his intelligence. Say things like, ‘You’re too cool to be an engineer,’ or ‘Nice kicks!’ or ‘You don’t seem lonely at all.’ Note: This only works on male engineers.
Sarah Cooper
You always want to end the year on a high note.
Andy Dalton
When you come out, and if you’re saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you’re not, it’s whatever.
Kano