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• Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

  John Keats

  Purple, Mouths, Mirth

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 2

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Sweet, Pain, Book

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.

  J. Robbins

  Communication, Favorites Things, Nails

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Heart, Simple

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

  Christine Lavin

  Pace, Ready

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• A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

  Horace Walpole

  Doe, Littles, Nonsense

  Horace Walpole, Sir Horace Mann (1833). “Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany”, p.304

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• Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Sweet, Laughter, Curves

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Girl, Writing, Artist

  "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.

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• The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.

  Robert J. White

  Uplifting, Self Esteem, Heart

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• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Steve Lacy

  Voice, Elements, Violin

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Spring, Sunshine, Sacrifice

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• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Writing, Voice, Singing

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

  Cynthia Weil

  Rejection, Stories, Rejected

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• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Couple, Play, Saws

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• Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dog, Crazy, Cat

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• You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

  Keren Ann

  Jobs, Writing, Giving

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• Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

  Lily Allen

  Reading, Writing, May

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• I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.

  Andrew McMahon

  Christmas, Running, Journey

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• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Memories, Civilization, Rivers

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is no peace to be taken
  With poets who are young,
  For they worry about the wars to be fought
  and the songs that must be sung.

  Joyce Kilmer

  War, Taken, Worry

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

  Todd Boyd

  Responsibility, Love Is, Play

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• Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fall, Autumn, Years

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• Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

  Emily Dickinson

  Idols, Wings, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.635, Harvard University Press

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• The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

  Steve Jobs

  Phones, Fiction, Records

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• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  John James Audubon

  Bird, Listening, Peculiar

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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