He listens well who takes notes.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.
Music is the silence between the notes.
I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
Sometimes a couple notes are worth a thousand words.
Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.