Quotes of: Music-career Keyword

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.

Night Music

Salsa music is best when chewing on nachos. I’m a spicy lover. Taste me and see.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move – like swimming almost.

London Calling

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Lives of a Cell, The

Lydia could hear music too, of accordion, horn and tuba bands, their oompa-pa oompa lumpen sounds like the bellows of bulls or moos of cows.

Lydia's Golden Drum

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

Love Is a Mix Tape

The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.

Meeting Islam: A Guide for Christians

[Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music by it.

The Mockingbirds

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

It’s not just about private time. It’s the atmosphere, the music and the lighting. It’s about doing something in public you know you shouldn’t and doing it anyway for the thrill of it.

Taking Chances

The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love—that was my summer of 1979.

The Orphan Sky

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.

Plastic Fantastic

Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

From oriole to crow, note the decline In music. Crow is realist. But, then, Oriole, also, may be realist.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

The Queen of Water

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

The River of Winged Dreams

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Twelfth Night