Quotes About Expression

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

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.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

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.

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

As a singer, you kind of are able to feel notes.

Playing with words is like combining different notes in music.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

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.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.