The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'
When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.
I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
"If we are truly the Lord's, we all walk with a limp" ~R. Alan Woods [2012] *Note: 'Jacobs Ladder'.
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
