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“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.”

Trying Firsts Littles Song Water Music First Time Western Albums Crowds Grass Tall Cowboy Bluegrass Cool Water

Author:Michael Martin Murphey

“If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.”

Ifs Knows Two Lasts Song Music Blood Middle Type Hundred Usa Theme United States Of America Typical Middle Aged Blood Type

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.”

Persons Song Music Musical Odd

Book:The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.”

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Author:Anne McCaffrey

“There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”

Song Music Taste Musician Jazz Singers African American Categories Black Women Good Taste Famous Women

Author:Sarah Vaughan

“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.”

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Author:Etta James

“I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.”

People Ifs Thinking Should I Can Hate Song Music Watches Break Middle Singing Yeah Dance Musical Destroying Unreal Dance Floor Funny Music Music And Life Music Is My Life

Author:Zachary Levi

“My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.”

Song Girl Music Percent Inspired Girl Power

Author:Paulina Rubio

“Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.”

Hard Moments Song Music Prison Borders Slips Shells Penetrate Always Believe Funny Things Right Moment

Author:Pete Seeger

“I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.”

World Song Dies Three Born Music This World Determination Hopeful Three Things

Author:Miriam Makeba

“Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.”

Ifs Writing Stills Whole Song Deals Music Theory Solutions Come Up Heal Going Out

Author:Alanis Morissette

“When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.”

Writing Stories Form Song Music Audience Honest Expression Lyrical

Author:Patti Scialfa

“I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.”

Song Waiting Music Guitar Find Me

Author:James Taylor

“Songs are more powerful than books.”

Book Song Powerful Music

Author:Elvis Costello