Passing/music

Famous quotes containing the words passing and/or music:

“Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)