Music Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last…

— Carson McCullers

“She was heading for the piano, and something told me that it was her intention to sing old folk songs, a pastime to which,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of rising and they were the…

— Ayn Rand

“His spirit was warped by bitter vindictiveness and puerile self-commiseration, and he spent his days in scorn of the labour that brought him bread…

— Willa Cather

“She sat at the window of the train....The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and…

— Ayn Rand

“Until she walked into my life I was simply a violin of rusted notes. In one night she rearranged the mess inside me, exposing…

— Poppet

“Those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her birth. Thus…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is…

— Donald Francis Tovey

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

— Tom Wopat

“Her repertoire ran mainly from the late Romantics, Schumann and Mendelssohn, to Poulenc, Ravel, Bartók, and Prokofiev.”

— Haruki Murakami

“She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly…

— Gabriel García Márquez