# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The City in the Autumn Stars

> In other words, the listener’s own picture was painted in the shining coulours St Odhran provided. By seeing what they wished, they also saw what he wished them to see. “They are the Orchestra,” he had told me earlier, “and I am merely the Conductor.”

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md)
- Page: 269
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_City_in_the_Autumn_Stars_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/in-other-words

## More from this book

> “Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”
>
> “The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.”

p. 377 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/are-you-aware.md)

> The English, I now know, eat mashed fish and deviled sheep’s hearts to guarantee a bad digestion (and consequent irritability). It is their abominable cooking which has given them half the world as their Empire.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/the-english-i-now.md)

> You may be abandoned by Satan, Sir, and I abandoned by God, but that does not put us in the same cart, nor even upon the same road.

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/you-may-be-abandoned.md)