"For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance."

-- Ben Gibbard

#Wise Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.”
“Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence in Voltaire seems to advance the story, and yet stand alone as a sound-bite.”
“This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.”
“To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
“I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.”
“Just drop your bucket where you are.”
“The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.”
“I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.”

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