Adam Duritz Quotes, Song Quotes, Art Quotes

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

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Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Song Quotes , Sweet Quotes

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Song Quotes , Feelings Quotes

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Song Quotes , Singing 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

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

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Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Song Quotes , Stars Quotes

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Song Quotes , Sea Quotes

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Song Quotes , Wall Quotes

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Song Quotes , Autumn Quotes

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Song Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.

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Tags : Al Barr Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Hands Quotes

Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Song Quotes , Grief Quotes

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Silence 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

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

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

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Tags : Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes , Song Quotes , Heart Quotes