From Preludes Quotes

#1. The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#2. She herself had never had enough money and never enough time and hadn't even been unhappy once, in contrast to those she called refined gentlemen, who always had enough money and enough time and constantly talked about their unhappiness. She

Thomas Bernhard

#3. Aren't you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" "You walked in and took the stairs one at a time," I answered. "And you haven't barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn't tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

Jeaniene Frost

#4. All five hundred boys want to go out with the same ten anorexic girls." She said, "I'm a good musician, but not many guys are looking for a girl that plays great Bach preludes.

Mary Pipher

#5. I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

Lara Fabian

#6. Compulsions are not good for the soul.

Gerald G. May

#7. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

Pablo Casals

#8. I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Lady Gaga

#9. The morning comes to consciousness

T. S. Eliot

#10. Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages ... and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven is where we get to hear the music played perfectly for the first time.

Tiffany Reisz

#11. Death was the price of life.

Mary Renault

#12. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#13. The road to progress is often paved with blood and bullshit.

John Boyko

#14. You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

#15. You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said ... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings ...

Lauren Kate

#16. Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Samuel R. Delany

#17. What woman worthy of the name Mother would stand on a high moral platform about selling her body if her child were dying of hunger and exposure? Not I.

Jennifer Worth

#18. I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)

J.D. Stroube

#19. I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

T. S. Eliot

#20. The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

Algernon Charles Swinburne