My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco, 'Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom.' The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro 'is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West.'
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.
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