Sheet Music Quotes

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  • Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

    Michael Ruhlman, Anthony Bourdain (2007). “The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

    Tired   Giving   Bulls  
    "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy" by Steve Martin, www.stevemartin.com. September 20, 2011.
  • If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.

  • One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

    Art   Real   Eye  
  • There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

  • It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

    Heart   Play   Trying  
    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
  • I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

    "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
  • Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

    Keys   Piano   Ribs  
    Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors
  • The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.

    Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
  • Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

    Fall   Eye   Boys  
    Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors
  • I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

    Music   Song   Writing  
  • I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

  • Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

    Nature   Wind   Rivers  
  • I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

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