Old Song Quotes - Page 2

• The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

  Max Stirner

  Song, Heart, School

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Thinking, Brave

  "Henry Rollins -- Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• 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.

  Robert E. Howard

  Song, Sea, Mountain

  Letter to Robert W. Gordon, February 4, 1925.

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• In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Mother, Dream, Song

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• There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I never made promises lightly
  There may have been some that I've broken
  But I swear in the days still left
  We will walk in fields of gold

  Sting

  Song, Broken, Promise

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• I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Men, Ohio

  "The Interview: The industry of Dolly Parton". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. May 11, 2014.

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• I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

  Linn Ullmann

  Song, Father, Writing

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• You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Song, Coffee, Believe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

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• In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Morning, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.275, Delphi Classics

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• I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

  Juelz Santana

  Song, People, Giving

  Source: www.ihiphop.com

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• When you play the old songs, it's awesome and I love it, but it's not work because everyone already knows it and it's easy. I have to break the crowd in on a new song and that's what is kind of cool and fun.

  Shwayze

  Song, Fun, Play

  Source: upc.fm

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• I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

  Five for Fighting

  Song, Nice, Years

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

  Frankie Avalon

  Song, Kids, Dvds

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• The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with new arrangements and new contexts as time goes by.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Essence, Singing

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Song, Moving, Names

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• With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

  Jack London

  Song, Stars, Keys

  Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

  Charles Dickens

  Song, World, This Life

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.191, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Hate, Different

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have to be done by, like, so-and-so." So I plucked some of the old songs and wrote some new ones. Everybody keeps asking me, "Is this your L.A. record?" I was doing songs in a bedroom in New York, I was doing it in a bedroom in L.A. The only difference is when I look out the window, there's palm trees instead of snow.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Snow, Tree

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Rocks, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Song, Expression, Echoes

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• That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

  Ellen Page

  Beautiful, Song, Cat

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

  Annie Dillard

  Song, Voice, Whirlwind

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