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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[H]e sang words without sense, but their tone went to his heart… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. – Hilaire Belloc

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. – Henry Giles

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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. – Alexander Smith

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