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Quotes About Song

Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river. My nostrils quivered as I felt the song of the mockingbirds and the drone of the grasshoppers mingle with the pulse of the earth. The four directions of the llano met in me, and the white sun shone on my soul. The granules of sand at my feet and the sun and sky above me seemed to dissolve into one strange, complete being.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
The Song of Mowgli—I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere Khan said he would kill—would kill! At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red! (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)
~ Rudyard Kipling
Hatikvah—"Song of Hope.
~ Ruth Gruber
Let's face it: it was impossible for them to have heard one another, much less conversed and also competed thus in song. Accelerating towards the planet, atmosphere roaring around them, how could they? But let's face this, too: they did.
~ Salman Rushdie
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song. These are the occasions when the bolts of the universe fly open and we are given a glimpse of what is hidden; an eff of the ineffable.
~ Salman Rushdie
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many painful ways deficient. Song turns them into something else. Song shows us a world that is worthy of our yearning, it shows us our selves as they might be, if we were worthy of the world
~ Salman Rushdie
the song consisted of an invocation to Neptune, chanted by a single leader and repeated in chorus, with a rhythm so sweet and well balanced that it imitated the regular movement of the sailors bending to their oars and the oars beating the water.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Each morning when I arrive, the doves know me; their song rises and falls with pleasure and acceptance. It is always there, a river of sound.
~ Alice Hoffman
James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.
~ Alice Hoffman, Nightbird
The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes. Blooming Gloriously For its Self.
~ Alice Walker
What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing. She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.
~ Alice Walker
From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of life
~ allama iqbal
final syllable of Bowie's 'Suffragette City'—the word suffragette being, perhaps not coincidentally, among the McCartney song's lyrics).
~ Allan Kozinn
Though illustrating a Wings LP, Arrowsmith's cover shot also symbolized Paul's feeling of contractual imprisonment with Apple. The seed of an idea sown by George at their July business meeting had now been captured in both song and photograph, and a veiled illustration of Paul's desire to finally shed his legal ties with John, George, and Ringo would soon be in the hands of music fans.
~ Allan Kozinn
People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.
~ Aminatta Forna
A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The past is always close, so close you can sing along with it, anytime you like.
~ Joe Hill
Pensou se eles ao menos conheciam o original que aquela canção parodiava, 'Hey Jude'. Provavelmente não. Eeei tu, pra quê chorar se você friiitar vai ser bem meerdaaa, Que pena! Você virar um carvão! Quem vai varrer sou eu, E catar as cinzas.
~ Joe Hill
She was prone to whistling bits from 1960s movie musicals and had secret fantasies of being joined in song by helpful blue jays and cheeky robins. "I
~ Joe Hill
fucking Judas Coyne on the boom box, a guy whose idea of musical complexity is a song with four power chords instead of three.
~ Joe Hill
Miriam sang, "Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid." The melody was just as good as the lyrics.
~ Joe Hill
For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to communicate with one another in rhymed song.
~ Joel Derfner
Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !
~ Joel N. Ross