Melody Quote by Thomas Mann

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and…

— Charles Dickens

“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same as those…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls,…

— Sinclair Lewis

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading…

— James Salter

So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical…

— Anne Rice

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

— Laura Hillenbrand

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body…

— Milan Kundera

“he was the indisputable master of the night, bopping as he churned out an endless assortment of music designed to trigger the primal human…

— Zita Harrison

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling…

— Evelyn Waugh