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Simon the Fiddler QUOTES

Simon the Fiddler QUOTES

1 " They were all too young to die and always would be. "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

2 " He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody, "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

3 " He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody, peculiar intervals, unheard notes. "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

4 " Music is clean, clear, its rules are forever, another country for the mind to go to, and so this search for employment among the drinking places of Galveston did not bother him. To Simon, the world of musical structures was far more real than the shoddy saloons in which he had to play. Nothing could match it, nothing in this day-to-day world could ever come up to it. It existed outside him. It was better than he was. He was always on foot in that world, an explorer in busted shoes. "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

5 " May a cat eat him and may the devil eat the cat "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

6 " His future was all there like a three-draw spyglass shut up and compact and he would draw it out cylinder by cylinder. Behind him were the flames of a burning barn in Kentucky and a childhood of bastardy. The worst was knowing all the time he was a good fiddler, even a superb fiddler, but long before this time and surely now many a good man had gone down to ruin or death unrecognized and probably drunk into the bargain. "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler

7 " He was going to have somebody reading the evening news to him for quite some time. "

― Paulette Jiles , Simon the Fiddler