Quotes of: Love-songs Keyword

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

The Song of Achilles

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

The Song of Achilles

When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him

The Song of Achilles

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

The Song of Achilles

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

The Song of Achilles

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

A Song for Julia

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

The Song of the Lark

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

The Song Remains the Same

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

Silence Is A Song I Know All The Words To

His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

Orpheus: The Song of Life

Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

Thirty-Seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

Chris Isaak

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.

George Strait

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Lucinda Williams

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine', which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

Roy Wood

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

This Song Will Save Your Life

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

This Song Will Save Your Life

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

This Song Will Save Your Life

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

This Song Will Save Your Life

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Neil Young

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

Peter R. Grant