Transcribing Music Quotes & Sayings

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling! — Charles Dickens

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture
graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not. — Steve Vai

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty. — Peter Shaffer

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. — Rick Wright

The sleeper dreams of an egg and knows an egg. He dreams the egg is hatched and a bird rises from the shell. Awake, he sees an egg and knows a star, and the star will shine. But how shall we wake the sleeper from his dreaming? How shall we enter his chamber and wake him to power? We can show him the door, but how shall we give him the key? — Kristin Kladstrup

Seems like Death came back for me."
He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends. — Holly Black

It is not good news, but we have to face reality. — Pascal Lamy

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for ... More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist. — Jim Dine

The worse scenario is when you do not know the purpose of your day to day existence — Sunday Adelaja

In the schools of business administration Negroes are trained exclusively in the psychology and economics of Wall Street and are, therefore, made to despise the opportunities to run ice wagons, push banana carts, and sell peanuts among their own people. Foreigners, who have not studied economics but have studied Negroes, take up this business and grow rich. — Carter G. Woodson

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. — Simon Critchley