# Quote — Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

> “I am a soldier, not a musician,” Kaladin said. “Besides, music is for women.”
>
> “All people are musicians,” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs. As for music being feminine, it’s interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise—the one you all practically worship in Alethkar—decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?”

- Author: [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md)
- Book: [Words of Radiance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance.md)
- Page: 638
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/i-am-a-soldier

## More from this book

> “I have to protect him,” Kaladin whispered.
>
> Why?
>
> “If I protect …” He coughed. “If I protect…only the people I like, it means that I don’t care about doing what is right.” If he did that, he only cared about what was convenient for himself.
>
> That wasn’t protecting. That was selfishness.

p. 1014 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/i-have-to-protect.md)

> To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.

p. 901 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/to-age-truly.md)

> Adeline placed the glyphward in the brazier, then bowed his head as it burned. A prayer to the Almighty for aid. His combatants for the day would probably be burning their own prayers. How did the Almighty decide whom to help?

p. 655 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/words-of-radiance/adeline-placed-the.md)