A.C. Newman Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Long Quotes

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Keys Quotes

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Song Quotes

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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Tags : Adam Duritz Quotes , Song Quotes , Successful Quotes

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Clever Quotes

Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

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If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Love Quotes , Song Quotes

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Soul Quotes

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Flower Quotes

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Mother Quotes , Song Quotes

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Song Quotes

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Song Quotes , Cheer Quotes