"Music is a bird's answer to the noise……" — Yann Martel

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words.… - Yann Martel

"Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. .."

— Yann Martel

Answer Quotes Answers Quotes Bird Quotes Exhilarated Quotes Heaviness Quotes Mind Quotes Music Quotes Music Is Quotes Noise Quotes Puts Quotes Speechlessness Quotes State Quotes States Quotes Words Quotes

214 Quotes by Yann Martel

Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If…
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly,…
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain…
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with…
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it…
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a…
If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if…
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because…
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know…
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond…
It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from…
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's…

See all 214 quotes by Yann Martel »

More Answer Quotes

This quote is filed under Answer Quotes, one of 4,553 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can… — Julian Assange
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people… — Dan Aykroyd
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word:… — Dave Barry
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before… — Jose Bergamin
I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra

See all 4,553 Answer Quotes »