Chiaroscuro Quote by Ella Leya

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in…

— Gilbert Parker

“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from…

— Robertson Davies

“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must…

— Upton Sinclair

“The music of a popular song now came from the radio as Hawksmoor gazed out of the window; and he saw a door closing,…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings…

— Ivan Goncharov

“There was something vampiric about. . music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don't believe in the supernatural. . .the way…

— Anne Rice

“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered to an…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to…

— Eduard Hanslick

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson