James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
"I Try" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim and David Wilder) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTk2xp0nvY <br class="br">On How Life Is (1999)
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"No Matter How I Try" (song) <br class="br">Gilbert O'Sullivan, "No Matter How I Try" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM6bo-QhS0 (song on YouTube) <br class="br"> (+ Live performance on Top of the Pops. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqEgnBNKDI <br class="br"> (+ Live performance in Japan, 1993. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQu04bOm9I <br class="br">Song lyrics
“I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
1993-12-30 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
Stage banter
“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”
Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham
Source: Green Eggs and Ham
“I am waking from a dream,
I am choking on a scream,
You were trying to show me something.”
"Firefly" on Greta Gaines (1999) http://www.allmusic.com/album/greta-gaines-mw0000068041; the phrase in quotes is a line from a poem of Dylan Thomas. · Full song at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEA4mjwRik&spfreload=10 · Live Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr63vyH-58 <br class="br">Context: I am waking from a dream,<br>I am choking on a scream,<br>You were trying to show me something.<br>But the dark is wide and long,<br>The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone,<br>You're still shimmering and leading me on… Firefly that's what you are<br>Burning for me in my darkest hour<br>"Light breaks where no sun shines"<br>So shine for me tonight — firefly.
“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."”
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
Speech at Heston Airport before his flight to Munich to meet Hitler (29 September 1938), quoted in The Times (30 September 1938), p. 12
Prime Minister
Don McLean (1945) American Singer and songwriter
"Castles in the Air"
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1970)
Context: And if she asks you why,
You can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of castles in the air.
I've got a dream I want the world to share,
And castle walls just lead me to despair.Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky,
A dream come true, I'll live there till I die.
I'm asking you to say my last goodbye.
The love we knew ain't worth another try.
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
Come Out and Play (20 November 2018), co-written with Finneas O'Connell.
Singles (2017 - )
“Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!”
Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle
Source: Howl's Moving Castle