Quotes
Quotes about Songs
Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give, As I live, If by such songs you would earn it.
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
