In un lungo saggio sul New York Times, lo scrittore giapponese Haruki Murakami spiega come quasi tutto quello che conosce sulla scrittura lo abbia imparato grazie alla musica.

Practically everything I know about writing, then, I learned from music. It may sound paradoxical to say so, but if I had not been so obsessed with music, I might not have become a novelist. Even now, almost 30 years later, I continue to learn a great deal about writing from good music. My style is as deeply influenced by Charlie Parker’s repeated freewheeling riffs, say, as by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s elegantly flowing prose. And I still take the quality of continual self-renewal in Miles Davis’s music as a literary model.

Jazz Messenger – Haruki Murakami- Books – Review – New York Times