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

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

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable

Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version. ... Nevertheless, on rare occasions, a misprint or slip of the pen may challenge our view of the musical language. These extreme cases may help us understand a little more about the way music acquires meaning, or what it means to say that the music makes sense.

To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown. I'm sorry.

Very fine, but why do you put so many wrong notes in? Basically, it is all built on simple triads.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way.

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things, — things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

Doyouwantogoona--Who is this? Oh, I have the wrong number.

I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?