Note Variation Quotes

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.