Quote by Alexander Smith
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. - Alexan

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

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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. – Alexander Smith

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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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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Little dew-drops of celestial melody. – Thomas Carlyle

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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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