Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!
As quoted in Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison (1997) by Brian Hinton, p. 106
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!
“Once positioned on their(children's) lips,
even the scariest of words
come out as a melodious lisp.”
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From Poetry
“A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.”
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 33.
A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Everything About It Is a Love Song
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
