John Milton Quotes, Bible Quotes, Song Quotes

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Running Quotes , Song Quotes

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

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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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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Voice Quotes

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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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

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

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Kissing Quotes

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

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

I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

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I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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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

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

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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