Sung Quotes
238 Sung quotes by 210 unique authors
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The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
— Charles Lamb
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Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti…
— Mao Zedong
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
— Wayne Coyne
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The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never…
— Hugh Dancy
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Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings…
— Olga Broumas
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
— John Milton
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Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never…
— John Dryden
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She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
— William Allingham
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
— James J. Corbett
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Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to…
— Frank Smith
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else…
— Barry Gibb
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Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
— Jakob Dylan
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The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that…
— Myles Munroe
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Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the…
— Cyndi Lauper
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Wasurenaide is neither my song nor anyone else's song. Because it is the song that belongs to the 5 members of Tohoshinki. Therefore, I don't…
— Jaejoong
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A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals…
— Linda Hogan
Who Wrote These Sung Quotes
210 authors contributed a total of 238 Sung Quotes, led by these top contributors: