Lullaby Music Quotes

#1. I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music. - Author: Patti Smith

#2. Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it. - Author: Karen Joy Fowler

#3. Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way. - Author: Holly Near

#4. When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. - Author: Alice Sebold

#6. In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts ... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important ... truth with fiction. - Author: Janet Leigh

#7. My sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many. - Author: William Dobell

#8. I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties. - Author: George Shearing

#9. The lullaby had the kind of tune everyone thinks they've heard before but can't remember where. A tune like that floats in the air all the time and now and then you catch it. - Author: Kathleen Winter

#10. I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby. - Author: Debby Ryan

#11. Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks. - Author: Stephen King

#12. A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that. - Author: Chaka Khan

#13. The wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well. - Author: Martin George

#14. My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. - Author: Stephan Jenkins

#15. Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light. - Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#16. I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#17. I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies could lift the curtain of fog, pass through windows and screens to waken us as gently as a morning lullaby. - Author: Kim Thuy