Adele Quotes, Song Quotes, Writing Quotes

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

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These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power Divine: Speak ye who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, ye in Heav'n, On Earth join all ye Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , God Quotes , Song Quotes

It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

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Tags : Alan Light Quotes , Song Quotes , Mean Quotes

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

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Tags : Alan Menken Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

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

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Soul Quotes

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Life Quotes , Song 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 knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

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Tags : Alan Lomax Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes

There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart. It's very hard to do that, but that's why you surround yourself with good people. Or write a song!

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Tags : Aino Jawo Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

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Tags : Adrian Marcel Quotes , Song Quotes , Matter Quotes

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Believe Quotes

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

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Tags : Afrojack Quotes , Song Quotes , Art Quotes

Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.

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Tags : Al Stewart Quotes , Girl Quotes , Song 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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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Song Quotes , Art Quotes

I wouldn't want someone assuming that some negative song has some truth between me and my wife. There was a song that one of my buddies sent me, and it was an awesome song. It was about this woman who had fallen in love with a man that wasn't her husband, and I love everything about the song except for the fact that I personally cannot sing it. It would kill me if someone thought I was singing it about my wife.

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Tags : Aaron Watson Quotes , Song Quotes , Husband Quotes

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

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Tags : Adrian Marcel Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

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Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Song Quotes , Mean Quotes

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

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Tags : Aaron Watson Quotes , Cheating Quotes , Song Quotes