“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.” — 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
“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
“Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You like sequences,” Fuka-Eri asked, without a question mark. “To me, they’re like Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. I never get tired of them.” — 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
“After sex, they would often lie in bed listening to the record. She never tired of it. “Armstrong’s trumpet and singing are… — 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
“I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music. That… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz—Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor—could never become owners of cleaning shops… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Astrud Gilberto sang an old bossa nova song. “Take me to Aruanda,” she sang. I closed my eyes, and the clatter of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out… — 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
“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
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If the composition's imperfect, why would so many pianists try to master it?' 'Good question. I have no great explanation for it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whenever the sixth tune on the flip side of the LP, “Atlanta Blues,” began, she would grab one of Tengo’s body parts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
