Air Quote by Gilbert Parker

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

The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with…

— Ella Leya

“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things…

— Shawshank Redemption

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the…

— James Lane Allen

“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected…

— Catherine Crowe

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

— Pat Conroy

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

— Etta James

“How may one describe enchantment? As he sang, his countenance softened, and without benefit of costume or any other artifice of the stage, the…

— Debra Dean

“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn,…

— Jennifer Paynter

“My hands moved up and down the keyboard, summoning great waves of music, each one crested with sorrow, loneliness, and anger. Tides of emotion…

— Sarah Beard

“The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy)”

— Tobias Jones

“The flower-covered grave of the saint in the inner room could be seen dimly through the narrow doorway. In front of it was a…

— Khwaja Ahmad Abbas