Money Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“Alfonso absorbed the music playing. How comforting he found it, a piece of his cousin's soul immune to erasure, beyond invisibility, living, vibrant.”

— Gar McVey-Russell

“But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn’t understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Music is an invisible being which is able to create a visible happiness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“To be a vessel, a conduit to a collective unconscious where all the music had seemingly existed for eternity, seemed a fantastic reason to…

— Devin Townsend

“Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe…

— Tad Williams

“Just then there came the wheezy sound of an accordion. It was an odd little tune that, had he been alive exactly one hundred…

— Gideon Defoe

“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters,…

— Arnold Schoenberg

“but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade”

— Herman Melville

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just…

— Leonard Bernstein

“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

“A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of…

— James Joyce

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott