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“Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.”

World Kind Stills Two War Ends Body Darkness Hero Pure Singing Mirrors Kingdoms Mysterious Geography Sirens Beauty Of The World

Author:Lord Dunsany

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”

Ifs Thinking War Light Song Clear Fashion Singing Glory Witness Repeats Shade Echoes Waging War Bearing Witness

Book:CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

Source: CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.”

Thinking Long War Hate Next Brain Drink Drug Singing Okay I Hate Bud Dope War On Drugs Hypocritical Just Say No

Author:Bill Hicks

“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.”

War Form Song Prayer Battle Six Singing Ministers Yankees Baptists Shooter

Author:John S. Mosby

“Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.”

People Littles War Ends States Order Nations Imagine Singing Sitting Absence Civil War Empires Anarchy Sitting Around Lennon Campfire

Author:Niall Ferguson

“Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!”

World Doe War Song Turns Games House Crazy Singing War Of The Worlds My Sister World War Ii World War I Mama Playing Games Whistling

Author:Reba McEntire

“Choosing happiness is a scary thing. Choosing love is a scary thing. When I was in the war, not only did I not have a voice, but I had to make myself not be heard, not be seen, become dumb, mute, blind, invisible, just so I could survive. When you fall in love, you become alive, all of a sudden you are singing. For me, there was a fear that the person I love would one day leave me, whether by their own choice or that they would die. How was I going to survive that? Choosing love and happiness is to know life goes on. I had to believe that.”

Believe War Choices Fall Love Is Love You One Day Singing Blind Falling In Love Scary Invisible Dumb Leaving Me Life Goes On

Author:Loung Ung

“There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.”

Ifs Knows Mind War Done Care Lasts Night Sound White Gone Fire Tree Mankind Spring Singing Lows Bird Rain Smell Dawn Pool Fence Wire Frogs Whim Robins Plums Whistling

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”

“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.”

Men Love War Grows Sleep Singing Adversity Tired Dancing Total War Singing And Dancing Singing Dancing Love Sleep

Author:Homer

“After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.”

People Life War Science Learning Cold Benefits Singing Congress Billions Russia Over You Texas Atoms Cold War Physicist Whips Supper Cancellation

Author:Michio Kaku