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• A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Boots, World

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• If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Shame, Deceiving

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• Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Loss, Understanding

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• I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!

  Jeff Coffin

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• I think there's a lot more to pop than just sugarcoated indie pop. Maybe to me it's something that's accessible, catchy, something people can remember.

  Laura Smith

  Thinking, People, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

  Albert Einstein

  Running, Sound, Firsts

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• God save me from myself.

  Billy Wilder

  Save Me

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• Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

  Henry Winkler

  People, Don't Take Life Too Seriously, Dies

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• No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Struggle, Tears

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• I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Sexy, Laughing, Cynical

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• Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

  Pico Iyer

  Tragedy, Comedy

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• Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, World, Stains

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• We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

  Spencer Smith

  Trying, Band, Tone

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• Don't miss out on today by living in yesterday.

  Joyce Meyer

  Yesterday, Missing, Today

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• What you get free costs too much.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Success, Cost

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

  William Safire

  Humble, Humility, Willing

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• Actions lie louder than words.

  Carolyn Wells

  Life, Lying, Action

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Song, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

  Bernadette Peters

  Inspirational, Positivity, Needs

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• The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Matter, Firsts

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• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Song, Empowering, Missing

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• I operate in such a vacuum. I write by myself, it's a very solitary experience, and I'm not used to, I've never had a label or anyone to say, "We wanna hear a single, we gotta come back and retool some of these songs until they're more catchy."

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Writing, Vacuums

  "The Sound of Serial: Composer Nick Thorburn Explains the Making of the Podcast Score". Interview with Sandy Honig, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2014.

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