“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
Variant: There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895
“Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....
As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.
Time will eventually prove one of us right.
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 60, “Fortune” (pp. 443-444; ellipsis represents minor elision of description)
John Diamond (doctor) (1934) Australian doctor
Source: The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), p. 105
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"The Conservation Ethic" [1933]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 191.
1930s
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
