# Quote — Pat Conroy, Beach Music

> [...] I learned from those evening recitals that music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [Beach Music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music.md)
- Page: 548
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#Beach_Music_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/i-learned-from

## More from this book

> But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/but-no-one.md)

> Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

p. 417 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/fantasy-is-one.md)

> I do not know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/beach-music/i-do-not.md)