Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Musical taste changes so little. The sound of late childhood plays at our funerals.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Music is a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he’ll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
