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Being in a class with kids, meeting new people, and borrowing notes from other students - I've never done that before. I've always had to fend for myself.
Chloe Kim
Myself
Class
People
Before
Other
Meeting
Kids
Borrowing
Never
Students
Had
New
Always
New People
Done
Being
Notes
My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.
Chord Overstreet
Music
Family
Business
Three
Music Business
Born
Name
How
Nashville
Came
Up
Child
Notes
Chord
Dad
Third
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
Chris Eigeman
You
Will
Thought
Network
Misguided
Had
Demands
Perhaps
Nonetheless
Were
Very
Just
Them
Notes
Urgently
Meant
Paid
Notion
Actually
Suggestions
I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.
Chris Stapleton
You
Yourself
Important
Singing
Think
Emotion
Songs
Put
Sing
Always
Just
Notes
Really
Should
Believed
I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.
Chris Young
Jazz
Think
Bit
Some
Pick
Studied
Lot
Up
Little
Little Bit
Notes
Sang
Chords
Growing
Growing Up
Things
Plays
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Christine Baranski
Music
Comedy
Focus
Energy
Rather
Takes
Like
Lot
Hitting
Precisely
Notes
Really
Hard
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.
Claire Messud
School
Year
Way
Immediate
Say
High
Distressing
High School
Could
Unsettling
Particular
Like
Particular Way
Until
Underground
Read
Known
Exhilarating
Discovery
Up
Senior
Senior Year
Fiction
Urgent
Notes
Moment
Things
I've been thinking about a cookbook. I've been making notes and promising myself I'll do it some day. I have an idea for a cookbook and music together.
Clarence Clemons
Music
Myself
Day
Together
Thinking
Promising
Some
About
Idea
Making
Been
Notes
Cookbook
We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.
Colin Greenwood
Recording
Keyboard
Top
Ghost
Melody
Record
Stuck
Head
Over
Repetition
Itself
Notes
Create
Played
Kept
I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.
Concha Buika
Type
High
High Price
About
Only
Price
Particular
Know
Involved
Genres
Demographic
Styles
Always
Am
Movement
Notes
Much
Paying
Chords
Consequence
I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.
Courtney Barnett
Together
Sometimes
Sit
Down
Kind
Write
Take
Songs
Put
Journal
Lot
Just
Just Kind
Them
Notes
Much
Really
Keep
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
Daniel Levitin
People
Some People
Others
Melodies
Some
Like
Likely
Very
Predictable
Prefer
Notes
Less
I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Starts
Fragments
Summer
Had
Over
Pieces
Wrote
Because
Around
Years
False
Lot
Very
Quickly
Sitting
Notes
In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
Dave Gibbons
You
Consider
Air
Immediately
Plot
About
Through
Bottle
Stuff
Like
Perfume
Particularly
Obvious
Reveal
Reads
Comics
Where
Anyone
Might
Notes
Themselves
Depths
Who
Rotation
Watching
Watchmen
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
Dave Matthews
Time
Words
Simple
Too
Right Time
Way
Melodies
Favorite
Songwriters
Until
Occasionally
Manage
Going
Listen
Often
Just
Stop
Notes
Many
Chords
Keep
Right
One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
David Bergen
Depression
Hope
God
Day
Woman
Age
Car
Confuse
Down
Despair
Innocence
Other
One Day
Some
Born
Dates
Names
Wrote
Well
Dealer
Till
Up
Office
Children
Title
Notes
Then
Ages
Reason
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Lives
Suffers
Her
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
Persistence
Took
Kind
Read
Off
Again
Notes
Paid
Your
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
Debi Gliori
Best
Precipice
Books
Way
Run
Rather
Both
Taken
Taking
Over
Ideas
Occasionally
Making
Hand
Left
Than
Which
Them
Might
Notes
Turn
Us
Fast
Right
Suggesting
Right Hand
Harmed
When I do a show, I jot little notes for me to remember, and when the show is done and forgotten, I chuck them all over the car. My wife goes nuts.
Dominic Holland
Me
Remember
Car
Wife
Chuck
Nuts
Jot
Over
Goes
Done
Forgotten
Little
Them
Notes
Show
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
Don Ellis
Mind
Long
Those
Solo
Minute
He
Dead
His
Trumpet
Behind
Wander
Anyone
Notes
Lets
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
Don Henley
Sometimes
Word
Will
Wind
Forcing
Melody
Ring
Onto
Take
Songwriters
Head
True
Singers
Up
Precedence
Forget
Get
Notes
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
Donald Fagen
Myself
Musicians
Slow
First
Jazz
Down
Imitate
Took
Way
Kid
Favorite
Out
Tried
Some
Records
Pianist
Red
Learn
Years
Years Ago
Trained
Did
Which
Them
Notes
Used
Jazz Musicians
Figure
Who
Lessons
Garland
Play
Ear
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Me
Technology
Writing
Protection
Long
Research
Aided
Possibility
Tried
Having
Only
Both
Computer
Taking
Since
Institute
Longhand
Beyond
Enables
Historian
Error
Modern
Moved
Modern Technology
Process
Which
Notes
Use
Organizing
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
Edvard Munch
Spiritual
Made
Sense
Poems
Records
Prose
Partly
Diary
Experiences
Ordinary
Ordinary Sense
Lengthy
Notes
When I drive, I check out everything I see, and just taking in all those observations helps me think. So I draw and write a lot as I drive, and I know that's dangerous, but I manage to do it off to the side, with my notes on the seat.
Edward Ruscha
Me
Dangerous
Drive
Think
Side
Everything
Draw
Those
Out
See
Write
Observations
Taking
Check
Know
Lot
Off
Manage
Just
Notes
Helps
Seat
I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.
Eleanor Catton
Type
Typed
Everything
Out
Possible
Find
Highlight
Print
Printed
Often
Interesting
Notes
Then
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