Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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Related Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... 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DEYTH BANGER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the ti... BJORK Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way becau... LAURA ESQUIVEL Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it complet... CHARLIE PUTH We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity ... RAVI SHANKAR If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo... CRAIG GROESCHEL Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS To me, country music has always been the home for a great song. ZAC BROWN My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring somethi... ETTA JAMES She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I d... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using ... ED KOWALCZYK You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. ...Why haven’t we had sex in six days?” “Because you have a bullet wound.” <... LORELEI JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A song rises up from the belly of my past and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. BRENDA SUTTON ROSE There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL There's a transcendent quality to Hawaiian music. There's something very grounded in it, very roots-... BARRY FLANNAGAN For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK And grant that when I face the grisly Thing,
My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps
Let me... JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER The worst things in life come free to us ED SHEERAN Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't ev... JANE SEYMOUR Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ... GEORGE MACDONALD I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not... BETH REVIS As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu... RANDY OWEN
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