
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)
Source: Sandman Slim
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)
“Too many songs have been written about love already, you know? Subject's covered.”
About why The Clash focuses on political songs.
Interview on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder on 5 June 1981.
Ood Sigma, to the Tenth incarnation of the Doctor, in The End of Time [4.18] (1 January 2010) <!-- written with Steven Moffat though only the final scene, and not this one. -->
“Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had,
Redemption songs.”
Redemption Song
Uprising (1979)
“Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge.”
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
Source: Demian (1919), p. 182
“You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53