“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
The Hindu, Magazine section, October 19, 2008. http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/19/stories/2008101950060200.htm
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
John McLaughlin (1942) guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
On his spiritual view of music.
New York Times interview (1972)
“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
“I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”
John Irving book A Widow for One Year
Source: A Widow for One Year
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
Six String Orchestra
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)