Every Note Played Quotes

“What’s the saying? Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Everything begins and ends. Every day and night, every concerto, every relationship, every life. Everything ends eventually.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“On the road to any great achievement are a thousand missteps, a thousand more dead ends. Success cannot be born without the life and death of failure.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Love isn’t measured by the number of hours a person logs.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? —Rumi”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Every note played is a life and death.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making, the thoughts she chose and believed, the fear and blame, paralyzing her in her unhappiness, telling her that her dreams were too big, too impractical, too unlikely, too hard to achieve, that she didn’t deserve them, that she shouldn’t want them, that she didn’t need them.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Location matters in destiny as much as it does in real estate.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Making him wrong allows her to feel right, and feeling right is her drug of choice.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“A flower doesn’t blossom from a seed without the persistent love of sun and water.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Jazz improvisation is a speech without a script. It’s twelve notes and doing anything she pleases. There are no rules, no boundaries. Verbs don’t have to follow nouns. There is no gravity. Up can be down.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Funny - how the story of their lives can be an entirely different genre depending on the narrator.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“On the road leading to any great achievement are a thousand missteps, a thousand more dead ends. Success cannot be born without the life and death of failure.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“He understands the breadth of what can be communicated in the smallest subtlety of sound. A single key played on the piano can convey the entire range of human experience.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Millennials. They’re all afraid to make a mistake.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“She played it, and his words release the last of her grip on twenty years of blame and resentment, of being right at any cost. The cost has been astronomical.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major, op. 17,”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“He ate and drank almost nothing but bologna, Doritos, and Tang in 1977.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Bach, Chopin, Schumann, these composers have mastered the art of listening. Richard hears Debussy’s “Clair de lune,” and every cell in his body has a broken heart and bare feet dancing in the moonlight. Playing Brahms is communing with God.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“She imagines the keys under her fingers as she plays along with her mind’s ear, the motor plan unfolded like an old family recipe, still legible after so many years.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“At the top step, her stomach matches the taste in her mouth, and the word sicken grabs the microphone of her inner monologue.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“She plays it again, and his words release the last grip on twenty years of blame and resentment, of being right at any cost. The cost has been astronomical.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Someday, scientists will discover a vaccine, a prophylactic, a cure, and people will talk about ALS the way they talk about polio. Parents will tell their children that people used to get something called ALS, and they died from it. It was a horrible disease that paralyzed its victims. Children will vaguely imagine the horror of it for a moment before skipping along to a sunnier topic, fleetingly grateful for a reality that will never include those three letters.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“But a poisonous black hate lives inside him, and his hatred needs a subject. The easy choice would be ASL, but ALS doesn't have a face or a voice or a heartbeat. Its hard to hate something that isn't human,”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“The thought of being immersed in the jazz scene in New Orleans, that magical hodgepodge of Delta-blues guitar riffs, brassy ragtime horns, and sultry French Gypsy music is too painful for Karina to stomach. Every girl loves a wedding unless the groom is the lost love of her life.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“SHE SEES WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR HER IF SHE DARES TO CLAIM IT”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“In Poland, Chopin is as revered as Pope John Paul II and God. Poland’s Holy Trinity.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“He laughs again. “You still have the discriminating palate of a farm animal.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. But she hasn’t been big enough or spiritually evolved enough or brave enough to do it. Richard is sick and dying, and she still can’t let him off the”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played