Quotes of: Musical-instrument Keyword

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Madame Bovary

Hello, Mary.' It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Mary Bennet

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

Music for Chameleons

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Soul Music

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

Soul Music

I didn’t want to play tonight. There hadn’t been any music in me all week. Just a sadness within.

A Sadness Within

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote: Conversations

I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright.

That Time I Joined the Circus

It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well.

Troll Or Derby

Oh, you are well tuned now, But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.

Othello

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be.

Poems on Slavery.

simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

The Piano Teacher

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

For the celebration I got champagne flutes, even though I’m not musical. That night I felt like Mozart. He was a drunk, right?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If anybody can appreciate fine music, it's me. I mean who else can hit multiple octaves with their armpits?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I ran a few miles, Davis, and they were musical. Then I made love like the sound of a trumpet, as heard by Helen Keller.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I make music like I make love—in a group. OK, so I’m not in a band, and I sing alone in the shower.

This Book Has No Title

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

The Violin of Auschwitz