“I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
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E.L. Doctorow 25
novelist, editor, professor 1931–2015Related quotes
“I can't hear a word you're saying
Tell me what are you singing
In the sun”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G. (October 1866), as quoted in Letters of Composers: An Anthology, 1603-1945 (1946) edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte, p. 241
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>I shall go my ways, tread out my measure,
Fill the days of my daily breath
With fugitive things not good to treasure,
Do as the world doth, say as it saith;
But if we had loved each other — O sweet,
Had you felt, lying under the palms of your feet,
The heart of my heart, beating harder with pleasure
To feel you tread it to dust and death —Ah, had I not taken my life up and given
All that life gives and the years let go,
The wine and honey, the balm and leaven,
The dreams reared high and the hopes brought low?
Come life, come death, not a word be said;
Should I lose you living, and vex you dead?
I never shall tell you on earth; and in heaven,
If I cry to you then, will you hear or know?</p
“I am apt to hire musicians sometimes because I know they will have some good jokes to tell.”
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
“You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert
“I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.”
Source: Reflected in You
As quoted in "Maia Mitchell: My Audition For ‘The Fosters’ Was ‘Crap’" by Sean Daly at The TV Page (20 January 2014) I'm sexy.
