Octaves In Music Quotes & Sayings

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. — George Bernard Shaw

Somehow suppressing her wolf, who was eager to slice open Marley's stomach, Jaime simply gave her an unpleasant smile. You know, I watched an old episode of Friends yesterday. It was so damn funny it could have made your boobs fall off ... Oh, you saw it. — Suzanne Wright

Physico-chemical reductionism in biology is the orthodox view, and any resistance to it is regarded as not only scientifically but politically incorrect. But for a long time I have found the materialist account of how we and our fellow organisms came to exist hard to believe, including the standard version of how the evolutionary process works. The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes.2 — Thomas Nagel

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that. — Maija Haavisto

In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing. — Jonathan Peters

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony. — Henry Ward Beecher

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide? — Terry Pratchett

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. — Alfred North Whitehead

Great, Yoda wrote the directions. — Roxanne St. Claire

A friend helps you move; a real friend helps you move a body. — Kelley Armstrong

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. — Sarah Tomp

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. — Vance Havner