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• You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Music, Heart, Variation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 1”, p.136, M-y books ltd

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• I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Summer, Sleep, Bird

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• Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Spring, Sky, Wings

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”

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• We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil, Suffering, Add

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

  William Ernest Henley

  Spring, Heart, I Love Him

  William Ernest Henley (2016). “A Book of Verses”, Read Books Ltd

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• You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Loneliness, Rain, Dirty

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• The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Peace, Nature

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

  Sue Thoele

  Light, Singing, Together

  Sue Patton Thoele (1998). “Freedoms After Fifty”, p.65, Conari Press

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• You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

  Blake Lively

  Rocks, Bags, Skanks

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• Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition. . . . all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Faithful, Intuition, Intellectual

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Stars, Thinking, Wind

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• O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.

  Saint Basil

  Brother, Pain, Home

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• We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.

  Ron Atchison

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Stars

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• All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

  Isaiah

  Fall, Tree, Over You

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• You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.

  Isaiah

  Hands, Tree, Joy

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• I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.

  Will Ferrell

  Karaoke, Driving, Forget

  "Exclusive: Will Ferrell Talks EVERYTHING MUST GO, CASA DE MI PADRE, THE OFFICE, STEP BROTHERS 2 and Pabst Blue Ribbon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

  J. Robbins

  Powerful, Writing, Political

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

  Harry Shearer

  Flow, Comedy, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

  J. Robbins

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"

  J. Robbins

  Couple, Cutting, Order

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.

  J. Robbins

  Communication, Favorites Things, Nails

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

  David Crabb

  Book, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

  Joseph Bruce

  Obsession, Entrances, All Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

  Ester Dean

  Writing, Transition, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

  Ester Dean

  Cheating, Writing, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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