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Quotes About Song

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!
~ Robert Browning
Marching along, fifty-score strong,Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.
~ Robert Browning
Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?How can ye chant, ye little birds,And I sae weary fu' o' care!Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird,That wantons thro' the flowering thorn!Thou minds me o' departed joys,Departed never to return.
~ Robert Burns
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
~ Robert Burns
We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song. You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of my sisters may well try to guide your steps as I once did.
~ Robert Jordan
sweet screams, pretty screams, singing screams, scream your song, sing your screams. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
Going to fetch Uncle Analdas. Have you been by the Hill? Just left there, Robin answered. Everybody's excited. Seems there's new Folks coming. Yes, I know, cried Little Georgie eagerly. I've just made a song about it. Wouldn't you like to hear it? It goes like - No, thanks, called Robin.
~ Robert Lawson
And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.
~ Robert Olen Butler
I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.
~ Larry McMurtry
I don't sing about myself," Campo said. "I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me." "Well, you sing them, who do they belong to?" Pea asked. "They belong to those who hear them," Po said.
~ Larry McMurtry
So to the end when life's dim shadows fall,                  Love will be found the sweetest song of all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.
~ Laura Whitcomb
A meadowlark clinging to a goldenrod loosed his song in notes of joy that Joshua was sure he could see sparkling in the sun. Dewdrops still outlined a spider's web in dots of glitter, a prism of golden rays.
~ Lauraine Snelling
You remember that song by Jovanotti I say to you, in the river?" he asks. "Yes!" I swivel a little to look at him. "I looked it up, but I couldn't find it." "' La Valigia ,'" he says. "The suitcase. The boy is a suitcase, he travels all around, but only one person, the girl, knows how to open the lucchetto. " "The lock," I translate, suffused with happiness at this.
~ Lauren Henderson
A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.
~ Matt Berninger
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
~ Peter Kreeft
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Jana Oliver
I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky
~ Adam Rapp
Con qué tranquilidad avanzamos a través de días y meses, y cantamos en voz baja una negra canción de cuna, cuán fácil los lobos secuestran a nuestros hermanos con qué levedad respira la muerte
~ Adam Zagajewski
Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.
~ Adrian McKinty
FURIES: Over the beast doomed to the fire this is the chant, scatter of wits, frenzy and fear, hurting the heart, song of the Furies binding brain and blighting blood in its stringless melody.
~ Aeschylus, Richard Lattimore
To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song.
~ Alain de Botton