“He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?”
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes

Ta de da da, and I watched Camilla dancing with her beer tray. Her hair was so black, so deep and clustered, like grapes hiding her neck. This was a sacred place, this saloon. Everything here was holy, the chairs, the tables, that rag in her hand, that sawdust under her feet. She was a Mayan princess and this was her castle. I watched the tattered huaraches glide across the floor, and I wanted those huaraches. I would like them to hold in my hands against my chest when I fell asleep. I would like to hold them and breathe the odor of them.
Ask the Dust (1939)

"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
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Page 106; from a notebook entry (1937).
Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences (1960)
“When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again.”
Said to an audience, as quoted in John Steinbeck Holiday, Vol. 58 (1977), p. 13