top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
Standard
Customized
More
"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
Author Name
Personal Development
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."
Genius
"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
Happiness
"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."
Desire
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
Music
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness
"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."
World
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
bottom of page