Carson McCullers: Quotes about music

Carson McCullers was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on music.
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“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People , Music , Singing , Housing

“It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.”

Carson McCullers

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Music , Heart

“Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Music , Color , Imagination , Time