We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It's as though there were two melodies going on simultaneously: one for private exploitation and the other for the public ear. The… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Music issuing like fire from the hidden chromosphere of pain, spore and madrepore fructifying the earth, navels vomiting their bright spawn of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
