Category: songs...
- the true definition of a song is a piece of music performed by a single voice
- composers of most folk songs are unknown
- music heightens the effect of words, allowing them to be rendered with a projection and passion lacking in speech alone
- Whose song do you sing?
- remembering all the words to your favorite songs
- finding a "life song" - a mantralike string of three or four syllables arranged in a pattern unique to you
- great songs happen when music and poetry agree
- It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best to sing them. (H. Belloc)
- The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. (I. Berlin)
- In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying up into the air, dancing. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- A song is anything that can walk by itself. (Bob Dylan)
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