“One spoon of Dylan makes a gallon of meanings.”
Source: Utopia Avenue
“If there is such a thing as sin, then it is a sin not to be able to play a musical instrument.”
Source: The Atom Station
“Sometimes, we hit the wrong notes like clashing echoes. Yet sometimes, just by chance, the notes we played for one another made unexpected music, like this.”
Source: The Beast Player
“It's always seemed odd to me that nonfiction is defined, not by what it is, but by what it is not. It is not fiction. But then again, it is also not poetry, or technical writing or libretto. It's like defining classical music as nonjazz.”
Source: Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
“Le vide n'existe pas. Le tableau est toujours achevé. Même si Scarlatti s'était contenté de transcrire les notes jouées par son chat, le morceau aurait été là. Un seul et unique cil suffit à reconstituer l'individu entier. Chaque partie contient le tout.”
Source: Cantique des plaines
“By the time Natalie realized what Viola was doing, it was too late. She was a senior in high school, and nothing whatsoever about music made her happy. Music was something to win, to be first and best at. She snapped at her parents and was too proud to apologize. She shrank from Uncle Kevin because it was easier than admitting the truth. She listened to all of Hunky Dory, to Ziggy Stardust and Heroes, and tried to feel lovely and strange and weightless, but she couldn’t; she played the piano, she listened to music, and nothing stirred, nothing sang inside. Natalie was earthbound and ordinary, marooned, alone.”
Source: Bellweather Rhapsody
“the designer music shop that sold status cymbals.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“This is how I want you to remember me now, the one who hates you, who wants to see you suffer, who laughs at you for the joke you have become in your own people, who regrets ever giving you a place in my life, and who knows the evil you hide. And soon, I will enjoy seeing you lose everything you tried to take away from me.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“But she said people should be able to dance to music, so she learned the church songs and played them double time”
Source: Rooftoppers
“Coincidentally, those likeable young lads from Liverpool had just peaked at number two in the UK pop chart with their second single, 'Please Please Me'. The Beatles they were called. What a funny name that was. I was four years old and I loved The Beatles... and Fireball XL5.”
Source: Salad Daze