"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."

-- Neil Diamond

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“Seasons are like life. Some seasons are better than others. Some have more sun and rainbows. Others have storms and tornadoes. Some have both. You have to accept that, and bring colour and light to the season you're in as best you can, and always look forward to the next season.”
“God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven”
“Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.”
“Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.”

Source : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.
“I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?”

Source : Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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