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Music Quotes by Charles de Lint

10 Music quotes by Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint treats music as a portal between worlds, and these ten snippets echo that sense of wonder. The verses are brief, yet they carry the same mythic undercurrent that runs through his novels, giving a taste of how song fuels his imagination.

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Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first…

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Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever…

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Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

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Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my…

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She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had…

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“Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no…

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I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's…

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Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding…

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Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,…

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I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at…

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The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

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You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

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“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run…

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Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the…

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When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the…

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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

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How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the…

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... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have;…

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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

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Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

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