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“And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”

Remember Song Music Fire Fine Musician Singing Admire Broads Roadside

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done”

Done Running Singing Eternity Seeds Mortality Fluid Altered Bud

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.”

Answers Singing Woods Mythology Rings Brides Orpheus

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

“Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing, only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.”

Real Dream Together Lasts Vision Break Wind Singing Mirrors Bones Climbs Spears Streaming

Book:Circles on the Water

Source: Circles on the Water

“I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.”

Hands Felt Darkness Singing Hills Dawn Leading Me Over The Hill

Author:Allen Tate

“I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.”

Said Stills Lying Poetry Poet Singing Tables Rounds

Author:Anne Sexton

“I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.”

Want Black Race Fire Strange Singing Chanting Heathen Black Race

Author:Gwendolyn B. Bennett

“See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'!”

Feels Singing Bird Wings Perseverance Rings Bells Wild Birds

Author:Frank Lebby Stanton

“what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere”

Singing Crosses Towns

Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson

“Sing and your hell is heaven, your heaven less hell.”

Heaven Hell Singing

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.”

People Art Different Voice Race Singing Monsters Selfishness Performing Performers Magnificent Egotism Performing Arts Egomania

Author:Leontyne Price

“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”

Men Giving Trying Happiness Friendship Half Friends Singing West Generosity Buying

Book:Out where the West Begins

Source: Out where the West Begins

“To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.”

Country Singing Painful Climbs

Author:Merle Haggard

“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”

Years Used Church Five Singing Five Years Exposed Solo Five Year Olds

Book:I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

Ifs Said Character Song Emotion Involved Musician Singing Realistic Portraying Blues Music

Author:Jack White

“When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.”

Way May Done Might Singing Picks Patterns Phrases Remarkable Vocal

Author:Robert Plant

“Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.”

People Want May Different Might Song Actors Difficult Acting Roles Records Five Four Singing Hundred Painful Profession Rejection

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.”

Said Born Example Birth Singing Bird Miraculous Korea North Korea Korean Kim Kim Il Sung

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.”

Thinking Singing Vulnerable Things To Do Shocking Heartbreaking

Author:Anna Camp

“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.”

Ifs Writing Humans Important Film Sex Human Beings Our Lives Painting Expression Return Eternal Singing Celebrate Artistic Theme Artistic Expression Sex And Death Film Writing

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.”

Ifs Believe Guy Voice Challenges Singing Lips Likes Discussion Hanging Out Toms Believe In Me Cruise

Author:Adam Shankman

“My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.”

Heart Kind Ideas Whole Sound My Heart Music Is Singing Productions Ridiculous Blogs Declaring Denominations Laid Back

Author:Mac DeMarco

“More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.”

Ifs Children Persons Important Care Can Do Building Painting Listening Singing Adults Important Things Dancing Engagement Greatest Gifts Often Is

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“I came to singing organically.”

Author:Alice Smith

“We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.”

Singing Fortunate

Author:Patty Andrews

“At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.”

Knows Play Universe Particular Singing Roots Patterns Rhythm Characteristics Particles Frequency

Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt

“When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.”

Rooms Grace Singing Watson Amazing Grace

Author:Ben Harper

“I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'”

Men Hate Dies Singing I Hate Dancing Enjoyed Assassins Cabaret Music Man

Author:Denis O'Hare

“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.”

People Knows Order Deals Records Fans Fronts Goes On Beats Singing Labels Idols Contests American Idol

Author:Jake Owen

“All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”

Wells Might Running Streets Mountain Singing Madness Range Streams Thread Flood Groove Forsaken

Book:Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.”

Knows Song Singing

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.”

Giving Kind Country Voice Fine Spring Singing Other Countries Magnesium

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God.”

Spirit Gratitude Goodness Singing Dancing Painful Lakes Salt Pioneers Goodness Of God Singing And Dancing

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Years Children Mother Music Feet Musician Singing Sitting Piano Strings Dusk Vistas

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.”

Years Memories Five Cold Kissing Singing Mouths Years Ago Damn Five Years Locked December Yale Bollywood Leading Ladies

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.”

Giving Born Acting Race Class Comedy Car Lessons Singing Driving Flying Piano Race Car Piano Lesson Skydiving Car Driving

Author:Steve Harvey

“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.”

Summer Spring Singing Towns Dancing Winter Dancer Autumn Bells Floating Spring Summer

Author:e. e. cummings

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

Men Way Looks Soul Light Lying Imagination Steps Imagine He Man Flower Sorrow Musician Singing Bird Fairs Dear Delight Grass Bites Singing Birds

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.”

Way Felt Singing Jazz Pianist

Author:Nat King Cole

“You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.”

Technology Singing Notes Studios Recording Studio

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.”

Children Fun Environment One Day Singing Bird Adversity Get Up Be You Joyful Delicious Our Environment Joyous Singing Birds

Author:Esther Hicks

“All my life I have hated and despised alto! ... From a boy it has affected me very strangely. That's why I hate Sunday. People will sing alto on Sunday that would never dream of singing it any other time.”

People Dream Hate Boys Singing I Hate Hated Sunday Affected Despised

Author:Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

“All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.”

Earth Song Dies Singing Singers Hills Bursting Chaps

Book:The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

Source: The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley

“[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.”

Want Writing Book Whole Practice One Thing Honor Pages Singing Seeds

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak and pray the same Word at the same time; in other words, because here they can unite in the Word.”

Reason Christian Together Speak Praying Singing Singing Together

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.”

Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.”

Years Found Easy Church Ten Singing Critics London Enjoyed Consumers Thoughtful Energetic

Author:Gary Hamel

“I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning”

Giving Reason Song Morning Inspire Singing Get Up Lifts Lift You Up

Author:Mavis Staples

“In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.”

Way Feels Wells Stills Certain Comfortable Findings Singing Sitting Guitar My Way Acoustics Groove Reggae Acoustic Guitar

Author:Colin Hay

“In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!”

Real Beautiful Happiness Company Morning Fields Walking Singing Bird Green Barefoot Real Happiness Beautiful Morning Green Fields Singing Birds Walking Barefoot

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan