Music Quote by Marcel Proust

“A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it…

— Brenda Ueland

“I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”

— Angela Carter

“Once, when I remarked that she looked like a disoriented bandicoot, she leapt up from the piano bench and beat me within an inch…

— Alan Bradley

“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

And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't…

— Christopher Parkening

“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her…

— Carson McCullers

“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

“The only solace was that Wepke seemed to appreciate how fine a piano he was about to receive and that he could also play…

— Krystyna Chiger with Daniel Paisner

Piano is like drudgery.

— Warren Zevon

“Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.”

— Karen Miller

“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed…

— david mitchell

“Formerly, in my attempts to isolate this talent, I deducted, so to speak, from what I heard, the part itself, a part, the common…

— Marcel Proust