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Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides the songs there were the magazine stories and the... Anne Tyler
Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of life, made it impossible for them to learn a language which could have taught them to speak of what was in their or others' hearts. The words of their souls were the syllables of popular songs. Richard Wright
Sylvia Plath quote: "If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular..."
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising off the water, lights flickered an invitation far enough away to be interpreted as we liked; to shimmer glamourously behind the silhouette of retrospective good times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs. Zelda Fitzgerald
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. Zelda Fitzgerald
Mel Torme quote: "But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is..."
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme
Bobby Sherman quote: "And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used..."
And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time. Bobby Sherman
Sammy Cahn quote: "The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. Sammy Cahn
Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about. Jack White
Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Erwin Schrodinger
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. Michel Gondry
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular. John Denver
Gavin DeGraw quote: "I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down..."
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. Gavin DeGraw
Luther Vandross quote: "I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not..."
I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. Luther Vandross
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. Branford Marsalis

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