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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." »Joan Baez
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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs." »Joseph Addison
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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs." »Tori Amos
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"Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres." »The Divine Pymander
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"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God." »Bible, Colossians 3:16
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"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful." »Mohandas Ghandi
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"In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life." »Martin Gore
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"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards." »Homer
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"You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate." »Eric Pio
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"What will a child learn sooner than a song?" »Alexander Pope
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." »Unknown
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"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME." »Shirley MacLaine
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." »Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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