"Music expresses longing and love and joy..." - Quote by Marsha Norman
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
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“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”
“People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”
“Write about the thing that frightens you most.”
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“So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.”
“The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.”
“We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.”
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“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”
“There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.”
“There are tones of voices that mean more than words.”