The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes.
What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.
Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.
To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
We found love in a hopeless place.
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes
Because you're mine, I walk the line.
Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
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