When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Music is the silence between the notes.

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

Being on the plane is my catch-up time. I write thank-you notes. I read. I write stand-up jokes.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

When I sing, there is an almost constant struggle with pitch and with reaching notes in the higher register.

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.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.