Ella Leya Quotes & Sayings

But the connection between us was in the air, growing stronger with each stroke of his brush and with every cadenza of my piano performance as we struggled to find our unique voices. He by bringing musical tonality to his painting; me by unlocking my inner sluices, letting the palette of emotions spill freely into the art of my music. — Ella Leya

The hurt is the place where the music enters you. — Ella Leya

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them. — Ella Leya

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion. — Ella Leya

The gusty wind Khazri swept through Baku, scouring every crevice, leaving behind air so pristine that it sparkled in the ginger sun like my mama's favorite crystal vase. — Ella Leya

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose. — Ella Leya

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is. — Ella Leya

My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard - my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance. — Ella Leya

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi. — Ella Leya

That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message. — Ella Leya

Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin's "Ballade no. 1. — Ella Leya

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy. — Ella Leya

The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio's chiaroscuro with Renoir's impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment. — Ella Leya

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. — Ella Leya

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. — Ella Leya

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil. — Ella Leya

You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths. — Ella Leya

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar's crooked nose. — Ella Leya

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls. — Ella Leya

Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. — Ella Leya

Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979. — Ella Leya

Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat. — Ella Leya