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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? - Matthew Prior

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? – Matthew Prior

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Swans sing before they die — twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. – W. H. Auden

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Thats the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! – Robert Browning

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The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin not sounding like them, but playing the voice like those instrumentalists. – Frank Sinatra

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