High Notes Quotes

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

Be aware of the high notes, Of the blissful faces and their soft messages, And listen for the silent message Of a highly decorated gift.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

So it's nice to know that Rita had that impact, and it was nice to end a character on a high note like that. But, again, in the moment... I always say, nobody was more devastated than me [from Rita's death in Dexter]!

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

The high note is not the only thing.

We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like Tony Bennett, who is my senior, and still can hit those high notes and still can belt it out as good as he ever did. So it must be something about the voice that's unlike the rest of the muscles in your body.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.

High expectations are the key to everything.

I can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

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

Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.