“ One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. ”
- Bess Streeter Aldrich- Copy
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“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
- 230
“ It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
- 2K
“ What's the difference between the music of my generation and todays? Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. ”
- David A. Vigilanti- Copy
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“ We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ”
- John Fowles- Copy
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“ Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ”
- Leonard Bernstein- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I was not a musician at the time. I had an acoustic guitar and I used to sing folk music and Bob Dylan songs. I loved rock and roll though. ”
- Michael Davis- Copy
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“ Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. ”
- Melissa Etheridge- Copy
- 1K
“ Swans sing before they die — t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. ”
- Roger Waters- Copy
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“ I wanted a perfect ending… Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next… ”
- Gilda Radner- Copy
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“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain… ”
- Joyce Kilmer- Copy
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“ Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. ”
- J. Carter Brown- Copy
- 2.8K
“ All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. ”
- Victoria de los Angeles- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. - The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 138
“ Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. ”
- Reverend Oliver G. Wilson- Copy
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