Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to know.”

— Vincent Lawrence

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and…

— Anthony Burgess

“she was playing something so low and soft that it felt as if she were humming it ... notes built and subsided, as if…

— Eloisa James

“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute,”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air. Serried. Then just as suddenly…

— Craig Raine

“...and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band…

— Peter Ackroyd

“...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted…

— Alice Hoffman

“What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth.”

— George R.R. Martin

“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had…

— George Gordon Byron

“I could see the water purling away from keeled scales that ran in a crest down the sinuous neck.”

— Diana Gabaldon