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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be

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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As long as we live, there is never enough singing. – Martin Luther

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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. – Pete Seeger

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If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher

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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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