notes quotes

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

The way ‚Lux‘ was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.