"Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get……" — Barry Hannah
"Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had."
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32 Quotes by Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah has 32 quotes on this site.
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out…
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed…
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from…
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was…
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked…
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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