"A song is a poem set to music."

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Source : Tom T. Hall (1987). “The songwriter's handbook”, Rutledge Hill Pr

Tom T. Hall

“Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.”
“It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.”
“I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.”
“Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan
“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
“If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.”
“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”
“Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”

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