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Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony: A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I am sending! Hear me! I will live! ↗

— Frances Densmore

#old-songs #voice #music

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it. ↗

— Jack White

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Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down. ↗

— John Edgar Wideman

#children #language #words #music

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#music #robert-johnson #music

The healing power of alcohol only works on scrapes and nicks. ↗

— Anthony Raneri

#music

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#canadians #depression #despondency #lyrics #music

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#music

It’s great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#mp #music

Music conveys to us itself! ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#revelation #music

Religious people were big on saying "the tongue is a mighty weapon, so use it wisely," and then forsaking this claim when the music director slept with the minister's wife or when the youth minister did what he did. ↗

— Tiffany King

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