English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Carson McCullers Quotes

Carson McCullers quotes about music

American Novelist February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967

Carson McCullers quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating... Carson McCullers
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house. Carson McCullers
And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last autumn. The symphony stayed inside her always and grew little by little. The reason was this: the whole symphony was in her mind. It had to be. She had heard every note, and somewhere in the back of her mind the whole of the music was still there just as it had been played. But she could do nothing to bring it all out again. Except wait and be ready for the times when... Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "Next to music beer was best."
Next to music beer was best. Carson McCullers
Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener..."
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers quote: "But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music."
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music. Carson McCullers

Popular Author

Related Authors