“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“she started asking me all kinds of personal questions – how many girls had I slept with? Where I was from? Which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Shimamoto was in charge of the records. She'd take one from its jacket, place it carefully on the turntable without touching the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I can't read, can't listen to music. I can't do anything but just sit there, waiting for morning to come.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Seeing a lot of water like that every day is probably an important thing for human beings. For human beings might be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Presently, I sense within me the slightest touch. The harmony of one chord lingers in my mind. It fuses, divides, searches--but for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At this point I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From college to those bleak textbook-company years, come evening I’d listen to the Such Sweet Thunder album, the “Star-Crossed Lovers” track over… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line Coltrane's soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it's McCoy Tyner's piano solo I hear, the left hand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
