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The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind ↗

— Maria Cristina Mena

#interpretation #music #philosophy #piano #racism

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#reading #music

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#poetry #music

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#house-rules #jodi-picoult #music

What are those people doing?" Jenna whispered to me. "I don't know," I replied through a frozen grin, "but I'm afraid a musical number might be involved. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#jenna #musical-number #rachel-hawkins #sophie #music

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#music #music

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. ↗

— Colbie Caillat

#power-of-music #song #soul #music

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#music #poetry #rampant #volatile #music

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#music

I will never let you fall I'll stand up with you forever I'll be there for you through it all Even if saving you sends me to heaven ↗

— The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

#music #music