Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

—J. K. Rowling

About J. K. Rowling

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Joanne Rowling ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-volume series about a young wizard and the best-selling book series in history, with over 600...

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

—J. K. Rowling

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

—J. K. Rowling

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.

—J. K. Rowling

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

—J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

—J. K. Rowling

More quotations tagged with “music”

My music is best understood by children and animals.

—Igor Stravinsky

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

—George Santayana

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

—George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

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