Music Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Love songs sweet enough to rot your teeth.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music”

— Haruki Murakami

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

— Haruki Murakami

“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”

— Haruki Murakami

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

— Haruki Murakami

“I love music, but I can't sing a note.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I'm only a girl with metaphysical soles.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The music world is where child prodigies go to die.”

— Haruki Murakami

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

— Haruki Murakami

“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.”

— Haruki Murakami

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or…

— Haruki Murakami

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing.”

— Haruki Murakami

“A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time…

— Haruki Murakami

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

“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was…

— Haruki Murakami

“I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music. That…

— Haruki Murakami

“The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all…

— Haruki Murakami

Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I…

— Haruki Murakami

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change…

— Haruki Murakami

“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

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

“Seeing a lot of water like that every day is probably an important thing for human beings. For human beings might be…

— Haruki Murakami

“Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“she started asking me all kinds of personal questions – how many girls had I slept with? Where I was from? Which…

— Haruki Murakami

“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to…

— Haruki Murakami

“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“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

“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I…

— Haruki Murakami

“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