Musical Quotes (page 143)

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• journey
• music
• thinking

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life... Frederick Buechner

• him
• music
• experience

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. Arthur Conan Doyle

• music
• evening
• world

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. Paulo Coelho

• cowboy
• baby
• kiss

The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights. Jack Kerouac

• music
• thinking
• words

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. E. L. Doctorow

• music
• classic
• musicals

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") John Cage

• nature
• music
• earth

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. Hazrat Inayat Khan

• mother child
• words
• evil

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother. Virginia Woolf

• music
• she
• musically

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music. Carson McCullers

• dark
• music
• framed

From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned. Cormac McCarthy

• magic
• painting
• end

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended toproduce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulaeto make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, anymore than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to makethings happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae. William S. Burroughs

• music
• illness
• cans

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• music
• welcome
• world

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome. Bob Dylan

• sharing
• death
• evening

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable. Marcel Proust

• poetry
• spiritual
• forest

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude--they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race. Herb Elliott