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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Stephen Sondheim

Music

Poetry

Difference

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

Marla Sokoloff

Music

Acting

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Tony Snow

Music

Mistake

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record.

Michael W. Smith

Home

Music

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

I just can't read music.

Kate Smith

Music

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Kate Smith

Home

Music

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.