He started simply, playing quarter notes in a pedal drone.
It's like my DNA has tiny quarter notes infused into it.
When we talked about music, we talked quarter notes and eighth rests, not hearts and flowers.
Webster became one of the last non-rococo players, a champion of quarter notes and whole notes.
He plucked quarter notes, mimicking a bass line, or strummed terse chords, like the Count Basie guitarist Freddie Green.
Meanwhile, the durations of the notes lengthen by degrees, from quarter notes to dotted quarters and then to half notes.
Numbers are everywhere in music, down to the differences between quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes.
Mr. Maazel made the relentless motif of pulsing quarter notes in the lower strings sound terrifying and inexorable.
A famous Motown beat, with the snare on all four quarter notes, anchors a lot of Mr. Weller's songs.
Those quarter notes and eighth notes, the soprano acutes and baritone graves, the Margaret Dumont curveball of the circumflex: even without her lyre, Sappho sings.
In 1981, he told Quarter Notes magazine that "Okie" "made me appear to be a person who was a lot more narrow-minded, possibly, than I really am".
