“Nothing in the entire world is worthy but for that day on which The Song of Songs was given to Israel”

“"Mortality", in Songs of Israel (1824). Abraham Lincoln was fond of repeating these lines.”

“People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.”

“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”

“This world has need of song and sword.”

“Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world”

“It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.”

“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”

“Yet was Rob Roy as wise as brave;
Forgive me if the phrase be strong;—
A Poet worthy of Rob Roy
Must scorn a timid song.”