A Quote by Patti Smith
When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
There's something kind of wonderful about men singing lullabies.
Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
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