"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs."
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"You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever."
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"No strings attached, your love is so WiFi."
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"'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again."
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"In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were."
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"You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months."
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"Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one."
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"I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away."
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"My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop."
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"If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky."
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"Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that."
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"Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend."
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"I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music."
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"Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!"
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"When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground."
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"Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind"
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"This dark diction has become America's addiction."
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"Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone."
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"Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life"
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"The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?"
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