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Quotes About Song

if I had known to what use they [Southerners] were going to put my song, I will be damned if I'd have written it.
~ Dennis McNally
The blue whale was so magnificent and her song so beautiful, that Becca's heart swelled. She felt Marco's hand tighten on hers and knew he felt the same way. She turned to him, but Marco wasn't looking at the whale anymore, he was looking at her. He was still holding her hand and was floating close to her now.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
~ Jennifer Egan
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
~ Jennifer Egan
If the world is to die in misery, let it at least go out with a song on its lips, and pity for itself.
~ Émile Zola
For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!
~ Emily Bronte
La esperanza es esa cosa con plumas que se posa en el alma y canta sin parar.
~ Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
~ Emily Dickinson
The spirit looks upon the Dust That fastened it so long With indignation, As a Bird Defrauded of it's Song.
~ Emily Dickinson
Then I will not repine Knowing that bird of mine Though flown shall in a distant tree Bright melody for me Return.
~ Emily Dickinson
La speranza è la pennuta creatura Che si posa nell'anima E canta melodia senza parole E non smette mai, proprio mai
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong
~ Emily Saliers
Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree: Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
~ Enid Blyton
I was born to fly wherever I like, to live in the open air, to sing whenever I want. You take all this away from me and then say, "What's wrong with you?
~ Epictetus
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~ Amanda Seyfried
O Love! what cruelties are done in thy name! We think of thee as coming with a rose, and a song, and a smile.
~ AMELIA E. BARR
Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light
~ Amit Ray
Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ….. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.
~ Amit Ray
The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
~ Amit Ray
How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.
~ Amitav Ghosh
This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws as there are in my rendition of it I do not regret, for perhaps they will prevent me from fading from sight, as a good translator should. For once, I shall be glad if my imperfections render me visible.
~ Amitav Ghosh
There is a story that while Sokrates was in prison, awaiting his death, he heard a man sing skillfully a song by the lyric poet Stesichoros, and begged him to teach it to him before it was too late, and when the musician asked why, Sokrates replied, 'I want to die knowing one thing more.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
Outbreak Monkey song coming from the Bluetooth speaker on Ellery's new desk.
~ Amy Lane
Just as Mary, like Hannah before her, sang a song of divine redemption, so Mary will learn, as did Hannah, that she will have to let her son go.
~ Amy-Jill Levine