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“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.”

Knows World Way Trying Kind Sometimes Done Use Dream Know How Wall Singing Bridges Insanity Pretending New Things New Ways Pretense

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be.”

Dream Stage Band Singing

Author:Judith Hill

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Stories Dream Song Fall Music Sea Century Cry Singing Rhythm Ancestor Falling Down Lullaby

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.”

Thinking Stills Dream Honest Essentials Singing Roots Melody Arrangements Transmit

Author:Juanes

“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

“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

“If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.”

Ifs Thinking Way Problem Dream Able My Own Singing Add Being The Best Sincerely

Author:Daesung

“I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Looks Dream Might Happens Guy Break Minutes Sweet Singing Debt Not Sure Businessman Annie Sweet Dreams

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of my life. I was not the typical teenager. I was very closed, shy and didn't hangout with my friends at disco's. My parents wanted me at home. Singing became my life, I traveled a lot on the job, and my job became my dream.”

Children Home Dream Wanted Jobs Father Parent Singing My Friends Competition Teenager Shy Ambitious Traveled Typical Contests Disco

Author:Laura Pausini

“I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.”

Writing Years Has Beens Two Dream Song Parent My Own Records Couple Singing My Friends Radio Albums Locals Two Years Stations Fifteen I Had A Dream Radio Stations Two Year Olds

Author:Lene Marlin

“I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.”

Years Play Character Dream Stars Rocks Grew Grew Up Singing Epic Rock Star Jem

Author:Samantha Newark

“Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.”

Years Wells Dream Mines Six Singing Piano Violin Six Year Olds

Author:Paris Hilton

“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.”

Trying Mind I Can Facts Dream Ability Becoming Limits Musician Singing Instruments Traveled Linked Open Mind

Author:Rokia Traore

“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”

Whole Dream Reality Dark Laughing Sun Singing Remains Dancing Shining Village Rays Huts Singing Dancing

Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart

“Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.”

Dream Stars Acting Rocks Singing Dancing Shining Plus Rock Star Alleys Singing Dancing

Author:Coco Jones

“As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.”

Believe Stills Helping Dream Bigs Form Young Song Choices Girl Support Singing Dresses Make Believe Singing Songs

Author:Adriana Lima

“[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].”

Use Dream Film Sound Records Singing Guitar Mess Layers Clarinet

Author:Steven Sebring

“Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."”

Character Dream Singing Harmony Greek Pens Chorus Hometown

Author:Will Kimbrough

“It's my dream to sing onstage all around the world. France is the land of my birth, but I prefer other countries because the world is very, very big and I'd like to discover different countries - it's my first reason for travelling and singing.”

World Different Country Reason Dream Birth Singing

Author:Amaury Vassili

“If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.”

Thinking Men Writing Kind Different Dream Singing My Best Friend Halfway Your Best Friend Just A Dream

Author:Tobias Jesso Jr.

“I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.”

Way Character Dream Voice Sweet Singing My Way Sweet Dreams

Author:Jessica Lange

“I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.”

Writing Dream Singing

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!”

Trying Dream Girl Stars Sound Voice Party Greatness Singing Ordinary Lonely Towns Radio Rap Stuck Queens Loser Teenage Hail Teenage Girl

Author:Rob Sheffield

“When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.”

People Love Life Dream Bigs Audience Relationship Singing Happenings Sight Echoes Single Word

Author:Taylor Swift

“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.”

People Writing Dream Running Spirit Talking Laughing Kissing Singing Sitting Hot Moved Dancing Busy Leisure Schedules Cages Crowded Backyards Squirrels

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“...Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness- and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees.”

World Persons Sometimes Dream Hands Able Rooms Fronts Quiet Singing Knees Flash Closets Brightness Orderly Clapping Quiet Person

Book:Why I Wake Early: New Poems

Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems

“Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you.”

Knows Said Sometimes Dream Eye Lasts Faces Song Heard Tears Singing Corners Throat Her Eyes Pillow Linen

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right

“That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.”

Dream Bigs Force Growing Up Growing Doors Air Singing Radio Stations Big Things Knocking Air Force Radio Stations Memphis Knocking On Doors

Author:Johnny Cash

“I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so...ordinary.”

Knows Two Dream Beautiful Talking Saws Tree Singing Ordinary Hundred Chickens Climbing Warmth Perpetual Not Talking Bulbs Miranda Fours Perpetual Motion Bryce Loski

Author:Wendelin Van Draanen

“When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.”

Men Inspirational Children Book Ends Dream Song Saws Hero Singing Hundred Comic Gentleman Movie Dreamer Comic Book Ladies And Gentlemen Saw Movie

Author:Elvis Presley

“I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong was playing it and singing the song to me. I woke up-it's a borrowed melody no doubt-and wrote it down. If I hear a song and I choose not to put it down, that's me neglecting to accept that song. I think there's a very spiritual and godly-type ting that happens, and it happens to way more people than we know. It's just that very few of us choose to engage it.”

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.”

Ifs Heart Dream Would Be Music My Heart Singing Decided Competition Songwriting Closest Living My Life Pursued Just Live Being Myself

Author:Jason Mraz