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• 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.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, May, Lasting Love

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• When a lovely flame dies,
  Smoke gets in your eyes.

  Otto Harbach

  Song, Sadness, Eye

  "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (song) (1933)

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• But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

  Stanley Crouch

  Media, Violent, Myth

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• Thanks for the joy that you're givin' me
  I want you to know I believe in your song
  Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
  You help me along, makin' me strong,
  Give me the beat boys and free my soul
  I wanna get lost in your rock n' roll
  And drift away . . .

  Dobie Gray

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Culture, Accessibility

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The moon upon the ocean
  is swept around in motion
  but without ever knowing
  the reason for its flowing
  in motion on the ocean
  the moon still keeps on moving
  the waves still keep on waving
  and I still keep on going

  Enya

  Song, Moving, Ocean

  Song: Anywhere Is

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• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  C. L. R. James

  Struggle, Class, Study

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• We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

  Tommy Shaw

  Lazy, Down And, Figures

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• 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.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Pain, Rain

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• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• Summertime
  And the livin' is easy,
  Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

  Ira Gershwin

  Song, Summertime, Cotton

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• We found love in a hopeless place.

  Rihanna

  Missing Someone, Hopeless, Found Love

  Song: We Found Love In A Hopless Place, Album: Talk That Talk

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• 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.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Song, Voice

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• To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star!

  Joe Darion

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Mitch Leigh, Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion (1966). “Man of La Mancha: a musical play”

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• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Paul Weyrich

  Song, Media, Giving

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• Whatever is popular deserves attention.

  James Mackintosh

  Song, Attention, Popularity

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• The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Music, Song, America

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

  Bruce Beresford

  Song, Opera, Revival

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• 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.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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• 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.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Song, Philosophy

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• Unforgettable, that's what you are
  Unforgettable though near or far
  Like a song of love that clings to me
  How the thought of you does things to me
  Never before has someone been more
  Unforgettable in every way
  And forever more, that's how you'll stay
  That's why, darling, it's incredible
  That someone so unforgettable
  Thinks that I am unforgettable too

  Irving Gordon

  Song, Thinking, Forever

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• I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

  Billy Eckstine

  School, Cab, Stills

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• Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

  Carrot Top

  Song, Stars, Opportunity

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• What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

  Howard Cosell

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