Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

One day in 1948 or 1949, the Brentwood Country Mart, a shopping complex in an upscale neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was the scene of a slight disturbance that carried overtones of the most spectacular upheaval in twentieth century music. M...

Alex Ross

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...

The Collector

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

Choosing Up Sides

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Complete Works

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

Taylor Durham was in a gay man’s heaven, with all those tight bodies swaying back and forth to the music. Grinding together in harmony.

Dark Indiscretions

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The Doctrine of the Mean

Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.

Duplex

When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.

Dirty Little Secret

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

An Essay on Criticism

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.

Eight Million Gods and Demons

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

An Equal Music

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordon

Flowers for Algernon

Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.

Five Flavors of Dumb

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

Fantasy Encyclopedia

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

The Glass Bead Game

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

GWG

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.

The Hunger Games

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement.

Bel Canto

We sat still, our breathing loud and rhythmic, its music melancholy, a traditional song of sorrow.

The Birds That Never Flew

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Beach Music