Lullaby Quotes
75 quotes by 60 authors
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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
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
— Linda Ronstadt
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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 Terán
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Ragtime was my lullaby.
— Hoagy Carmichael
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Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
— John Keats
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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
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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
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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
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
— James Fenton
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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
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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.
— Alanis Morissette
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Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
— Tom Waits
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Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
— Sarah Dessen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
— Sarah Dessen
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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
— Sarah Dessen
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Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
— Sarah Dessen
Who Wrote These Lullaby Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 75 Lullaby Quotes, led by these top contributors: