Lullaby Quotes

75 quotes by 60 authors

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a… — Holly Near
When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. — Linda Ronstadt
A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior.… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Ragtime was my lullaby. — Hoagy Carmichael
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! — John Keats
A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy.… — Chaka Khan
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and… — Les Dawson
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even… — Edie Falco
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. — James Fenton
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. — Langston Hughes
I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. — Alanis Morissette
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. — Tom Waits
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. — Sarah Dessen
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry… — John Berger
A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.… — Kevin Brockmeier
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless… — Sarah Dessen
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference. — Sarah Dessen
And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place. — Sarah Dessen
Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you? — Sarah Dessen

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