“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Joan Miró (1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist

“It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word—on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“From such a face and form as mine, the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination!
It's human nature! I'm resigned.”

W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

“Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard”

Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author

“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.”

Glenn Gould (1932–1982) Canadian pianist

“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…”

Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer

“It’s of note that the word 'cosmetic' has its roots in the word 'cosmos.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)