Quotes About Song
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motionMade constant cry, caused constantly a cry,That was not ours although we understood,Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
~ Wallace Stevens
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
~ Walt Whitman
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Why do I feel that ghosts are more real Than these creatures of substance and matter? Why does their song seem to drive me along More than humanity's drivel and pratter?
~ Walter Jon Williams
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We're tenting tonight on the old campground,Give us a song to cheerOur weary hearts, a song of homeAnd friends we love so dear.
~ Walter Kittredge
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But good records seem to get to the people who need them the most. I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly." Petty
~ Warren Zanes
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I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly.
~ Warren Zanes
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Tap is a school for syncopation that's also a school of song. "There's a dynamic that's used in tap dancing," explains Steve Ferrone, "that's the same as what you use when you're playing the drums. You build into the chorus. You have the introduction, the verse, all of that. I tap danced to 'Georgia,' slow. And I won a car doing it.
~ Warren Zanes
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I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.
~ Darlene Zschech
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And as for recreation, variety was a large part of it. Why sing the same song every night when there were so many beautiful melodies around to try? Of
~ Dave Duncan
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Covers by a thousand bad white blues imitators damn near wore the song out.
~ Dave Marsh
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I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
~ David Almond
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
~ David Antin
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The depth at which we live is our personal song, our canvas - the energetic thumbprint we leave upon the world.
~ David Ault
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When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
~ James Beattie
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
~ James Broughton
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Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
~ James Frey
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The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
~ James Hamilton-Paterson
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I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.
~ James Kaplan
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The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.
~ James MacDonald
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Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."1
~ James MacDonald
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They stopped building long enough to tilt their heads toward the heavens, and together they sang a dark, unholy song, words not spoken for centuries. Moloch watched the gathering from his place in Hell, and he said that it was good.
~ James Newman
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Bangkok She continued her pacing, so as not to draw attention. The word was code, taken from the rock musical Chess, and the song "One Night in Bangkok.
~ James Rollins
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There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway, a song that they sing when they take to the sea, a song that they sing of their home in the sky, maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep, but singing works just fine for me.
~ James Taylor
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Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life.
~ Donna Tartt
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