Under the window somebody was singing. Winston peeped out, secure in the protection of the muslin curtain. The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to […]
Music Quotes
When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
I did. (to a fan who said she’d give her life to be able to play piano like that)
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There are two kinds of music – good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don’t want to hear.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
