Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
More from: Gustave Flaubert
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. -
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. -
I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records. -
I mean, music totally comes from your soul. -
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
More quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
- The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.