10 Quotes by Haruki Murakami about music






  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    Sunk back in his chair, eyes closed, lost in the music, a number of thoughts crossed his mind — mostly having to do with himself. But the more he thought about himself, the less reality his existence seemed to have.

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?""Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep enough into your heart so that it makes your body undergo a kind of a physical shift, and simultaneously the listener's body also undergoes the same kind of physical shift. It's giving birth to that kind of shared state. Probably.

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