Carl Sagan Quotes, Song Quotes, Years Quotes

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Song Quotes , World Quotes

I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

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Tags : A. J. McLean Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but because it's such an intimate space anything I chose to sing simply to make sound was going to come off an inauthentic. So I was really happy with where it landed - every song I sang, I loved for one reason or another. I didn't have to worry about selling a song.

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Tags : Aaron Tveit Quotes , Song Quotes , Space Quotes

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

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Tags : Alan Villiers Quotes , Song Quotes , Art Quotes

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Song Quotes , Men Quotes

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Song Quotes , Teaching Quotes

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

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Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Song Quotes , New York 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

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

I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Mother Quotes , Song Quotes

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

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Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Song Quotes , Freak Quotes

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Song Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Song Quotes , Pain Quotes

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Echoes Quotes

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