Walt Whitman Quotes, Running Quotes, Song Quotes

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Song Quotes , Sweet Quotes

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

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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

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Song Quotes , Cities Quotes

In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.

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Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Song Quotes , College Quotes

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Song Quotes , Nature Quotes

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Song Quotes , Simple Quotes

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Song Quotes

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Song Quotes , Simple Quotes

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Song Quotes , Scottish Quotes

Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Song Quotes , Ideas Quotes

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

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Tags : Al Jardine Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Song Quotes , Calling Quotes

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Song Quotes , Morning Quotes

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