Comedy Quote by Hector Berlioz

“The instruments were all half desired, half forgotten. It was as if they were left behind by a ghost right in the middle of…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“the clatter of pots and pans and dishes. To others it was a cacophony. To Anton it was a symphony.”

— Louise Penny

“It was a music that had so little wisdom you wanted to clean nearly every note he passed, passed it seemed along the way…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Now, when he sat at the piano, he did not play music for the company the notes provided him. He played the music so…

— Meredith Duran

“I play the only instrument that takes in music rather than propelling it out: the ear trumpet. Don’t bother snickering at me—I am deaf…

— Jarod Kintz

“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source of keen…

— Marcel Proust

“He crossed the stage, pushed the bench back and sat, hands resting on the keyboard cover. After a moment, he took off the cloth,…

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly,…

— Anonymous

“Once he has outgrown his youth, a man will rarely remain a prisoner to his insolence. He had thought it was the only way…

— Marcel Proust

“We are not written for one instrument alone.”

— André Aciman

“The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the…

— Sol Stein

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov