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• Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Cheer, Winter, Air

  William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grenville Mellen, United States. Literary Gazette (1826). “Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States Literary Gazette”, p.113

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• When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

  Euripides

  Wrath, Two, Long

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Sweet, Air

  Henry James, Martin Scofield (2008). “Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Care, Superstitions

  Following the Equator ch. 51, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Percy Shelley 15

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• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Attitude, War, Fire

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  Brian McKnight

  Hip Hop, Hips, Jazz

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• When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dying, Age, Growing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  Fergie

  People, Audience

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• Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  New York, Memories, Thinking

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• I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Simple, Trying

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• The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

  Alex Kendrick

  Children, Powerful, Quality

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Passion, Writing, Careers

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

  Amy Carmichael

  Believe, Rooms, Satan

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• The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Blue, Guitar

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Endure, Composer

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

  Tracy Chapman

  Guitar, Years, Firsts

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• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spring, Flower, Winter

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I would never put my songs in a commercial.

  Tom Petty

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• Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Stories, Problem

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.406, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Support, My Children

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• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  Denis Norden

  Comedian, Use, Pay

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• Families without songs are unhappy families.

  Pat Conroy

  Singing, Unhappy, Happy Family

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

  Carly Simon

  Standards, Stills, My Own

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• I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

  Paula Cole

  Memories, Teenage, Childhood

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