Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Song Quotes, Air Quotes

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

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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

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

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Tags : A. S. Byatt Quotes , Dream Quotes , Song 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

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Snakes Quotes

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

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

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Song Quotes , Triumph Quotes

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Song Quotes , Owl 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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

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[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

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Song Quotes , Spring Quotes

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Song 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

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