A Commonplace Book

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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