Abiding Quote by Richard Powers

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear…

— Richard Powers

An ear sense for music is the secret.

— Bhushan Kumar

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

— James Frey

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

— Susan Wittig Albert

“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.”

— George B. Dyson

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

— Flying Lotus

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft…

— T. S. Eliot

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not…

— Alan Watts

We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune

— David Levithan

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

— Ferruccio Busoni

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

— Julian Treasure

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

— Billy Sheehan