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song pain garden
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? Anne Rice
song believe voice
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased. Andrew Solomon
song book people
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights. Czeslaw Milosz
song people trying
Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people. Conor Oberst
song rain eye
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.
song writing rocks
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.
song matter inanimate-objects
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
song fighting thinking
I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"
song fun ideas
We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. Anais Nin
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self people transformation
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Susan Sontag
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. Roger Rosenblatt
self true-self creator
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. Thomas Merton
self problem existence
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
self needs firsts
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
self order identity
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.
self disease contemplation
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. Thomas Carlyle