“Classical music is a perennially flowing river and nothing can affect its flow. No one needs to worry about Indian music. It is forever.”

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us… Nothing just stops and stays… But it flows on… Like a river…”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.”

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Russian composer, pianist and conductor

“The river that flows in you also flows in me.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

“The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.”

F. S. Flint (1885–1960) English Imagist poet

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Aaron Copland (1900–1990) American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor

“This is an absolute deep contrast to Chopin, who found himself favoring a classical form of musical essence. He needs to bring nothing in from outside, the music is nearly ‘absolute.”

Burkard Schliessmann classical pianist

“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

Stephen King (1947) American author