Haruki Murakami Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Writing

• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Reading, School

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 09, 2015

• So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

  Haruki Murakami

  Oil, Trying, Musician

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House

• I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Two, Long

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

• I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Men, Bars

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

• I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Clubs, Had Enough

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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