“In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …”
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“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)
“When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.”
As quoted in BAM Magazine (6 April 1990).
“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“May these songs year after year be sweeter to sing among men.”
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 1773–1775 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
Duerden, Nick. "The Golden Girl" http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1052. Blender. October 2004. Retrieved October 25 2006.
Tinselworm (2008)
Commentary on the Psalms http://dhspriory.org/thomas/english/PsalmsAquinas/ThoPs0.htm , Introduction