Henry Miller Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Song, Wine

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

  Henry Miller

  Song, Guitar, Singing

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

• The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

  Henry Miller

  Song, Singing, Essentials

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

• The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

  Henry Miller

  Song, Swans, Singing

  Henry Miller (1963). “The Rosy Crucifixion”

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