Chorus Quotes - Page 2

• I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.

  Janis Ian

  Real, Writing, Talking

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• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

  Garrett Hedlund

  School, Trying, Bass

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• Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Drama, Opportunity, Want Something

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• Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

  Deborah Wiles

  Baseball, Art, Drama

  Deborah Wiles (2016). “The Aurora County All-Stars”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Goodbye, Kids, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sweet, Peace, Flower

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• I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sick, Forgiving, Looks

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• Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.

  Kiersten White

  Flower, Bed, Down And

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• Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.

  Darynda Jones

  Dream, Fall, Night

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'

  Taylor Swift

  Book, Thinking, Mirrors

  Liner Notes for the "Speak Now" album, 2010.

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• My favorite song he ever wrote was 'Cold Cold Heart.' If you think about it, the lyric to 'Cold Cold Heart,' see how many two syllable words are in that song. Very, very few. ... Verses and the choruses have very few two syllable words. 'I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my everything.' One three-syllable word.

  Don Helms

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Bridges

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• Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

  Ryan Tedder

  Crowds

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• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  Hunter Parrish

  Song, Verses, Written

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  Alison Krauss

  School, Band, Incredibles

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• Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

  Tom Petty

  Kings, Rock And Roll, Gold

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• How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Stars, Moving, Long

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• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Italian, Turkeys

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2141, Delphi Classics

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• So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

  George Will

  Blue Dress, Dresses, Complaining

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• I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's doubled. And it's not even harmonized, it's all the same note! And I'm like, "Oh, that sounds epic." I don't know, it's just one of those arbitrary taste things.

  Robin Pecknold

  Epic, Guy, Listening

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• Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

  Calvin Trillin

  Sound, Ears, Deceiving

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• There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.

  John Oates

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

  Charles Wagner

  Memories, Single Mom, Men

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• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

  Bel Kaufman

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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