9 quotes found
“Creation is much in need of ordering.”
“Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.”
“I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.”
“Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.”
“The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyones desire.”
“The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.”
“We will not sleep, but will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. You'll see me again. But you'll never know when. Hear that shifting, ambiguous rhythm, that promise of all thing...”
“The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.”
“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present ...”