Music making Quote by Glen David Gold

“He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent,…

— Nicole Mones

“Nothing else fills me with as much elation as chasing down soaring music, catching and pinning rhythms to the ground with my feet, proud…

— Padma Venkatraman

“He told him about his routines, how they had started out as a comfort and became a prison. (He was about to say that…

— Phaedra Patrick

“His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was…

— Mitch Albom

“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless…

— E.M. Forster

“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.”

— Dennis E. Adonis

“The joy made him feel like a drunken man. To teach and exhort and explain to his people--and to have them understand. That was…

— Carson McCullers

“One must have the music in his heart before he can play it on the strings.”

— Carlos Montoya

“I heard the footsteps of my fathers steel-toed boots as he left before the sun had risen and I thought for a moment that…

— Emily Curtis

“and what struck my heart almost as much as the song itself was the way that he seemed with his whole body to lean…

— Anne Rice

“Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns Who plays his pipe among the churns. He's a coward, he's benighted, He makes everyone feel slighted,…

— Julia Glass