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Quotes About Song

Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.
~ Suzanne Collins
Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.
~ Suzanne Collins
No, true story," Peeta says. "And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings... even the birds stop to listen.
~ Suzanne Collins
Rue drawing her last breath in my arms. And the song. I get to sing every note of the song. Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm surprised that the next speaker is Boggs, who I think of as a muscular robot that does Coin's bidding. "When she sang the song. While the little girl died." Somewhere in my head an image surfaces of Boggs with a young boy perched up on his hip. In the dining hall, I think. Maybe he's not a robot after all.
~ Suzanne Collins
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.
~ Suzanne Collins
suddenly opened its wings to reveal two patches of dazzling white as it lifted its beak in song. Coriolanus felt sure he'd spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.
~ Suzanne Collins
A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta's child could be safe.
~ Suzanne Collins
El pájaro, el broche, la canción, las bayas, el reloj, la galleta, el vestido que estalló en llamas. Yo soy el sinsajo. La que sobrevivió a pesar de los planes del Capitolio, el símbolo de la rebelión.
~ Suzanne Collins
usually rents a white dress that's been worn hundreds of times. The man wears something clean that's not mining clothes. They fill out some forms at the Justice Building and are assigned a house. Family and friends gather for a meal or bit of cake, if it can be afforded. Even if it can't, there's always a traditional song we sing as the new couple
~ Suzanne Collins
I heard her singing.
~ Suzanne Collins
She didn't fall off the bridge! The snow would look different where she was standing!" Maude Ivory insisted. "Lucy Gray, which is it?" "It's a mystery, sweetheart. Just like me. That's why it's my song," Lucy Gray answered.
~ Suzanne Collins
Want to hear them do a real song?" I burst out.
~ Suzanne Collins
The Hanging Tree" out loud for ten years, because it's forbidden, but I remember every word. I begin softly, sweetly, as my father did.
~ Suzanne Collins
A hush in the trees. Just the rustle of leaves in the breeze. But no birds, mockingjay or other. Peeta's right. They do fall silent when I sing. Just as
~ Suzanne Collins
It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....
~ Suzanne Finnamore
I still remember a few striking lines from Tagore's poems: I read in the problem of life and the world, The twist of tears and joy. I see before myself the busy feet of the wind, Suggesting humanity and law. The wind hastens to the shadow whose passion lies; Shall we go abroad and start anew, O wind, To build again a better life and song?
~ Swami Rama
I have so many memories, and I love music because you can listen to a song when you're at a certain place or doing something special and that particular song will always remind you of that thing.
~ Daniel Jacobs
I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.
~ Graham Russell
There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'
~ Alice Ripley
In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America's political circus, they send in the lawyers.
~ Gavin Esler
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.
~ Eminem
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
~ Louis Armstrong
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche