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Mark Helprin quotes about music

American Novelist June 28, 1947

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Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal."
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal."
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal. Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin quote: "He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with..."
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. Mark Helprin
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mark Helprin
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. Mark Helprin
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night. Mark Helprin
Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists keep the sacred and ineffable alive, they are under siege by coarse generations whose music is hardly as musical as a bus engine or a chain saw. Something must have occurred during their mothers' pregnancies. How else is it possible to explain that playing Bach keeps them away from public spaces the way iron spikes drive pigeons from cathedral... Mark Helprin

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