Alan Brennert Quotes, Song Quotes, Struggle Quotes

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Love Quotes , Song 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

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Moving Quotes

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

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Song Quotes , Childhood Quotes

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes

Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue, While insects of each tiny size Grow teasing with their melodies, Till noon burns with its blistering breath Around, and day lies still as death.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

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

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Song Quotes , Law Quotes

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Song Quotes

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Song Quotes

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

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Tags : Akiva Goldsman Quotes , Song Quotes , Ideas 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

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Song Quotes , Hymns Quotes

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

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

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Learning 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