“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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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.
Wives and Daughters, ch. 11
Wives and Daughters
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Speech at the Somerville Club, February 27, 1895
“Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.”
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)
Source: The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), p. 105
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
"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
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
