Blue Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

— Dodie Smith

“A Round of fiddles playing Bach.”

— Louis Zukofsky

“Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed them in a garbage can, left the building, and went…

— Günter Grass

“If you knew the history of that flute, it would make your brain flip upside-down. And”

— Brandon Sanderson

“The music interrupted mockingbirds and cardinals and half-hour church bells. It was at times orchestral and at times a cappella, a mighty love song…

— Rita Leganski

“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the misty rain…

— Sage Steadman

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.

— Fred Allen

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.”

— Khalil Gibran

“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland with Amory…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and…

— Anthony Burgess

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new…

— Thomas Gray

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley