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"from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on."

Heart Song Dark
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"I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while."

Country Song Fall
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Maya Rudolph Actress, Comedian
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"I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have."

Writing Song Sleep
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Mike Willis Artist
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"I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music."

People Song Shoes
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Lloyd Musician
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"I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs."

Writing Song
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
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"hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!"

Home Song Sweet
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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
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"All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence."

Song Talking Silence
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Earl King Musician
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"Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs."

People Want Song
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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another."

Heart Song Limits
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!"

Thinking Children Song
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment."

Thinking Men Song
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige."

Thinking Song Light
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Patrick Watson Musician, Composer
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"The one good thing about a movie and music and stuff like that: Sometimes it's a counterpoint between the movie and the music itself, the difference and the tension they build together. I think that could be something that helped with me, because when I write songs now, I write lyrics a bit like that. I try to make the music be an interesting twist on the lyrics and help tell the story in a - I don't tell crazy stories, you know? So a lot of times, the twist is in the subtleties. The twist is in the way the story's told."

Writing Song Crazy
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Patti Smith Musician
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"When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band."

Song Teenager Holiday
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Patti Smith Musician
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"I can't bear working with a click track, we're not click track people. But for "Mercy Is ..." we all got in one mind because the song is delicate; it's not a song that showcases a vocal or some virtuoso."

People Song Track
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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song."

Thinking Writing Song
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