“You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
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Patrick Rothfuss236
American fantasy writer 1973Related quotes
“To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
Source: Rene J. Smith The Spirit of Flight http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Euu4e-4qNAUC&pg=PT30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 15 January 2012, p. 30
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor
And, of course, I did.
Quoted in Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604146, p. 91
On first hearing The Rite of Spring
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Arcades (1630-1634), line 68
Source: The Complete Poetry
“Music needs room to breathe.”
Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor
“Bigger room, darling. Like I said, we need a bigger room.”
Kelley Armstrong book Frostbitten
Source: Frostbitten
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), V, line 8