Bird Song Quotes: top 56 famous quotes about Bird Song

Bird Song Quotes & Sayings

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Morning has broken
Like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird. — Eleanor Farjeon

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood. — Terry Kay

If you become a singing bird, I will be the listening sky so that I will never miss your song. — Debasish Mridha

I want to paint the way a bird sings. — Claude Monet

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind. — Nanao Sakaki

A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. — W.H. Davies

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. — Marsha Norman

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same. — Rosa Luxemburg

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio. — Andrew Bird

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive. — Andrew Bird

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Maya Angelou

Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. — J.G. Holland

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. — Sylvia Plath

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. — Pete Hamill

When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb — Rebecca Yount

If liberty sang a song, little,
as the larynx of a bird,
nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall. — Ahmad Shamlou

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague. — Andrew Bird

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play. — Dolly Parton

A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
An April day in the morning! — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear. — Frank Bolles

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends. — Jason Mraz

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed. — Eliot Pattison

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali

I feel like tiny bird with a big song! — Jerry Van Amerongen

When we hear the bird sing, it hears only how to love. (Quand on entend l'oiseau chanter, - Lui n'entend que comment aimer.) — Charles De Leusse

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song . — Charles Hartshorne

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. — Rabindranath Tagore

Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. — Dean Koontz

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord. — Guru Nanak

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song. — Ilchi Lee

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after. — Pete Seeger

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness. — Andrew Bird

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way. — Katherine Catmull

I don't expect you to understand, little bird. I expect you only to sing. Sing for me, sing for Kanin, and make it a glorious song. - Sarren — Julie Kagawa

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel. — Amy Tan

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. — Clarice Lispector

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life. — George R R Martin

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. — Andrew Bird

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. — Phoenix Desmond

A heart is a bird which can only hear the song of kindness and love. — Debasish Mridha

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can. — Wes Craven

(And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?) — Angela Carter

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. — Germaine Greer

Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out. — George Carlin

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa — Kirby Larson

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song." — Andrew Bird