If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

With a note of music, one strikes the fundamental, and, in addition to the root note, other notes are generated: these are called the harmonic series...As one fundamental note contains within it other notes in the octave, two fundamentals produce a remarkable array of harmonics, and the number of possible combinations between all the notes increases phenomenally. With a triad, affairs stand a good chance of getting severely out of hand...

Well anyone can make a 'weird' [chord] progression by randomly picking triads.

I didn't want to repeat the same notes in the second verse that I used in the first, so I wrote out all the notes of the song and all the notes that were missing in the scale, given that there are twelve notes from octave to octave. All those notes that weren't in the scale were the ones I wanted in for the next verse. The listener isn't aware that they are new notes, but the sound is pleasing to the ear. I change the key, and somehow it's fresh because you haven't heard those notes before.

If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that

There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s important

When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extremely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.

All of one's life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

There might be one little thing that makes all the difference, one note or one word. The fine-tuning is all important, and you've got to stay there until you get it right ... That's why it can take years.