Piano Chords Quotes

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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
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Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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The success I've achieved comes to me from God
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Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber - My World Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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One less lonely girl
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Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber - My World Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.
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Demi Lovato (Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo
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Demi Lovato (Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget
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Shania Twain (Shania Twain - Up! Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope, and that makes me feel brave.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home
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Carrie Underwood (Carrie Underwood -- Play On: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I'd rather pick flowers instead of fights.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.
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Billy Ray Cyrus (Billy Ray Cyrus - The Other Side Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.
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Prince (Prince - 1999 Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Maybe it's the stardust in my head.
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Carrie Underwood (Carrie Underwood -- Play On: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.
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Stevie Nicks (Stevie Nicks - Greatest Hits Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - Born This Way Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord.
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Amor Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow)
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Kiss Me Hard Before You Go,Summertime Sadness
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Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence - Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Chicken is good and never stop eating you will look like me and you will have hair like me and sing like me and be 500 pounds!!!!
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Justin Bieber (Justin Bieber - My World Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Home will always be here Unseen, out of sight Where I disappear and hide I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye So I'll spread out my wings and fly
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To them I always say Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire that burns you up inside? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming With that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Cause if you want it all You've got to lay it all out on the line
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Tim McGraw (Tim McGraw: Like You Were Dying- Piano / Vocal / Chords)
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When violet eyes get brighter And heavy wings grow lighter I'll taste the sky and feel alive again And I'll forget the world that I knew But I swear I won't forget you Oh if my voice could reach back through the past I'd whisper in your ear: "Oh darling I wish you were here.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be
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David Gilmour (Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon: Piano/Vocal/Chords (Alfred's Classic Album Editions))
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The end is uncertain and I've never been so afraid But I don't need a telescope to see that there's hope And that makes me feel brave.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - Born This Way Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.
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Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?
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Metallica (Metallica - Death Magnetic Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.
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Jon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel
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Carrie Underwood (Some Hearts (Piano Vocal Chords))
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I am the black in the book the letters on the pages that you memorize.
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I wish I had covered all my tracks completely cause I'm so afraid Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel or just the train?
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Dirty pony, I can't wait to hose you down.
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - Born This Way Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I forget the last time I felt brave, I just recall insecurity Cause it came down like a tidal wave, and sorrow swept over me Then I was given grace and love, I was blind but now I can see Cause I found a new hope from above, and courage swept over me
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches.
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Shawn Mendes (Shawn Mendes - Handwritten - Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Well, all I need is the air I breathe and a place to rest my head.
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Hal Leonard Corporation (OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Cause when push comes to shove, You taste what you're made of. You might bend till you break, Cause it's all you can take. On your knees, you look up, Decide you've had enough. You get mad, you get strong, Wipe your hands, shake it off. And you stand...
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Rascal Flatts (Rascal Flatts - Me and My Gang Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I get so high when you're with me then crash and crave you when you leave
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Ke$ha (Ke$ha - Animal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Home is a boxcar and it's so far out of reach Hidden under umbrella beach
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Owl City (Owl City - Ocean Eyes Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
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Oscar Hammerstein II (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all
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Whitney Houston (Whitney Houston -- The Greatest Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
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Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.
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Keith Urban (Keith Urban - Defying Gravity Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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I'd take another chance, take a fall Take a shot for you And I need you like a heart needs a beat But it's nothin new I loved you with a fire red- Now it's turning blue, and you say... "Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you But I'm afraid... It's too late to apologize,
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Hal Leonard Corporation (OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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That was the day I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exists but darling You are the only exception
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Hayley Williams (The Only Exception: Piano/Vocal/Chords (Sheet))
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the best people in life are free
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Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift - 1989 Songbook: Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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The more I know, the less I understand
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Don Henley (Actual Miles -- Don Henley's Greatest Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I tell you how I feel But you don't care I say tell me the truth But you don't dare You say love is a hell You cannot bear And I say gimme mine Back and then go there For all I care.
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Fiona Apple (Fiona Apple - Tidal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
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Carrie Underwood (Some Hearts (Piano Vocal Chords))
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Love when you can. Cry when you have to. Be who you must, it's a part of the plan. Await your arrival, with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.
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Dan Fogelberg (Fogelberg Dan Greatest Hits Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows
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Yusuf Islam (The Very Best Of Cat Stevens (PVG) Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - Born This Way Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure.
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Metallica (Metallica - Death Magnetic Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I want to know, have you ever seen rain comin down on a sunny day?
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Creedence Clearwater Revival (Creedence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hits Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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You're waiting for someone to put you together, you're waiting for someone to push you away, there's always another wound to discover, there's always something more you wish he'd say
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Vertical Horizon (Vertical Horizon -- Everything You Want: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I need you like a heart needs a beat (But that's nothing new)
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Hal Leonard Corporation (OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.
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James Blunt (James Blunt - All the Lost Souls Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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A different lover is not a sin
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - Born This Way Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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For me you'll always be 18 And beautiful And dancin' away with my heart.
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Lady Antebellum (Lady Antebellum - Own the Night Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today
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Josh Groban (Josh Groban - Awake Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.
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Fiona Apple (Fiona Apple - Tidal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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But that's the same for everyone if we let society determine our value," Steve explained as he sat down on the piano bench. "We always lose when we evaluate ourselves according to some one else's ideas or standards. And there are as many standards as there are people. A jock measures you by your athletic ability; a student by your brains; a steady by your looks. It's a losing battle," he said, striking a sour piano chord for added emphasis. "We have to forget about what people say or think, and recognize that God's values are the only important ones.
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Joni Eareckson Tada (Joni: An Unforgettable Story)
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My rock candy passion is bittersweet And armed to the teeth Cuz she would rather fall in chocolate Than fall in love.. Especially with me!
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Owl City (Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Translator's Note: When the violin repeats what the piano has just played, it cannot make the same sounds and it can only approximate the same chords. It can, however, make recognizably the same "music", the same air. But it can do so only when it is as faithful to the self-logic of the violin as it is to the self-logic of the piano.
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John Ciardi (Inferno)
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No,” I said, raising my voice to be heard over the piano chords. β€œI didn't lie to you, Puck. I meant what I saidβ€”at least, I did back then. But it's not the same as what I feel for Ash, you knew that.” β€œDid I?” Puck's voice was ugly. β€œMaybe I did, but you sure led me on a merry chase, princess. Just like a pro. When were you going to tell me I didn't have a cold chance in hell?
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Julie Kagawa (The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, #3))
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What about your Your 10,000 promises? That you gave to me (to me, babe) Your 10,000 promises That you promised me You say I'll take you back But I close the door 'Cause I don't want 10,000 more
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Backstreet Boys (Backstreet Boys -- The Hits, Chapter One: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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You never miss the water til the well runs dry...
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Peter Tosh (Best of Peter Tosh Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I don't care who you are Where you're from What you did As long as you love me
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Backstreet Boys (Backstreet Boys -- The Hits, Chapter One: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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you're not the opinion of someone who doesn't know you
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Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?
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Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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It's not easy waiting on You, it's not easy believing that You got this together, but without faith it is impossible to please You.
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Kirk Franklin (Kirk Franklin - The Fight of My Life Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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When no hope was left inside On that starry, starry night You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent This world was never meant For one as beautiful as you.
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Don McLean (The Legendary Songs of Don McLean Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Lights flash and we'll run for the fences Let them say what they want we won't hear it
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Taylor Swift (Taylor Swift - 1989 Songbook: Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Everybody's got a dark side. Do you love me? Can you love mine? Nobody's a picture perfect, but we're worth it, you know that we're worth it.
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Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Clarkson - Stronger Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I didn't come for a fight, but I'll fight till the end
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Fall Out Boy (Fall Out Boy: American Beauty/American Psycho - Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of β€œSpacebar,” trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I’d played it. But it was still catchy. Whoever had written this song had known what they were doing.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #4))
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Things aren't always what they seem You're only seeing part of me There's more than you could ever know Behind the scenes.
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Francesca Battistelli (Francesca Battistelli - My Paper Heart Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Face it--the one person you never spend time with is yourself.
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Jim Brickman (Jim Brickman -- Simple Things: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I may appear to be free but I'm just a prisoner of your love.
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Macy Gray (Macy Gray -- On How Life Is: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tune We're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soon Captains of the old order clinging to the reins Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains But it's a long road out of Eden (...) Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools And it's a long road out of Eden
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Eagles (Long Road Out of Eden (Piano/Vocal/Chords))
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I made my bed and I sleep like a baby with no regrets and I don't mind saying it's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger. And how in the world can the words that I said send somebody so over the edge that they'd write me a letter saying that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over?
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Dixie Chicks (Playlist -- The Very Best of Dixie Chicks: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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And in the evening After the fire and the light One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light Time is relentless And as the past disappears We're on the verge of all things new
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Billy Joel (Billy Joel - River of Dreams Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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But for now let me say I love you Later on there'll be time for so much more But for now meaning now and forever Let me kiss you my darling then once more Once more But for now let me say I love you Later on I must know much more of you But for now here and now how I love you As you are in my arms I love you I love you I love you
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Jamie Cullum (Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Someone made the mistake of telling me the safest place in a lightning storm was in a car because of the grounding of the rubber tires. After that, at the first sound of thunder, I caterwauled until my parents would take me in the car until the storm subsided. I then proceeded to write about cars for the rest of my life.
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Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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Colorβ€”that’s another thing people don’t expect. In her imagination, in her dreams, everything has color. The museum buildings are beige, chestnut, hazel. Its scientists are lilac and lemon yellow and fox brown. Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard station, projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound. Church bells send arcs of bronze careening off the windows. Bees are silver; pigeons are ginger and auburn and occasionally golden. The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk are shimmering kaleidoscopes, each needle a polygon of light. She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks. He is an olive green when he talks to a department head, an escalating series of oranges when he speaks to Mademoiselle Fleury from the greenhouses, a bright red when he tries to cook. He glows sapphire when he sits over his workbench in the evenings, humming almost inaudibly as he works, the tip of his cigarette gleaming a prismatic blue.
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Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See)
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Somewhere along the line Coltrane's soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it's McCoy Tyner's piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody's - a nameless, faceless somebody's - dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that's how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest.
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Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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We’re all honorary citizens of that primal forest, and our burdens and weaknesses always remain. They are an ineradicable part of ourselves; they are our humanity. But when we bring light, the day becomes ours and their power to determine our future is diminished. This is the way it works. The trick is, you can only brighten the forest from beneath the canopy of its trees . . . from within. To bring the light, you must first make your way through the bramble-filled darkness. Safe travels.” Excerpt From: Born to Run
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Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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It is the sound of the crowd that can be heard in the second, crescendoing rush of the orchestra that follows the final verse, rising from a hum to a gasp to a shout... fusing at last to a shriek (its similarity to the sound of the crowds at Beatle concerts is surely no accident). The onrushing sound of the orchestra at the end of "A Day in the Life" has transcended more than the conventions of Sgt. Pepper's Band. It is the nightmare resolution of the Beatles' show within a show. It is the sound in the eras of the high-wire artist as the ground rushes up from below. There is a blinding flash of silence, then the stunning impact of a tremendous E major piano chord that hangs in the air for a small eternity, slowly fading away, a forty-second meditation on finality that leaves each member if the audience listening with a new kind of attention and awareness to the sound of nothing at all.
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Jonathan Gould (Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America)
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So, I'm gonna choose to reach out, Choose to lay down All of the fear that I've been hiding. Choose to be brave Though my heart's afraid To be a part of your kingdom rising. Oh, God, I'm done runnin' from The reason that You sent Your Son, So I will choose to Love! Maybe I'll hurt Maybe I'll bruise Maybe I'll cry Maybe I'll lose Still, I will choose to love.
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Francesca Battistelli (If We'Re Honest Francesca Battistelli - Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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(T)here is no darkness, not the kind they imagine. Everything is composed of webs and lattices and upheavals of sound and texture... Colour - that's another thing people don't expect. In her imagination, in her dreams, everything has colour. The museum buildings are beige, chestnut, hazel. Its scientists are lilac and lemon yellow and fox brown. Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard room projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound. Church bells send arcs of bronze careening off the windows. Bees are silver, pigeons are ginger and auburn and occasionally golden. The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk are shimmering kaleidoscopes, each needle a polygon of light.
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Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See)
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I see you look at me when you think I'm not aware You're searching for clues of just how deep my feelings are How do you prove the sky is blue, the oceans wide? All I know is what I feel when I look into your eyes I promise you from the bottom of my heart I will love you till death do us part I promise you as a lover and a friend I will love you like I never love again With everything that I am
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Backstreet Boys (Backstreet Boys -- The Hits, Chapter One: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to his dark corner, old God Shearing, and the boys said, 'There ain't nothin left after that.
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Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
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I wrote about everything I didn’t write on The Fame. While traveling the world for two years, I’ve encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my β€˜Fear of Sex Monster,’ my β€˜Fear of Alcohol Monster,’ my β€˜Fear of Love Monster,’ my β€˜Fear of Death Monster,’ my β€˜Fear of Loneliness Monster,’ etc. I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/Goth beats, 90’s dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of 80’s melancholic pop, and the runway. I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them.
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Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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I've been looking in the mirror for so long. That I've come to believe my souls on the other side. Oh the little pieces falling, shatter. Shards of me, To sharp to put back together. To small to matter, But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces. If I try to touch her, And I bleed, I bleed, And I breathe, I breathe no more. Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well. Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child. Lie to me, Convince me that I've been sick forever. And all of this, Will make sense when I get better. I know the difference, Between myself and my reflection. I just can't help but to wonder, Which of us do you love. So I bleed, I bleed, And I breathe, I breathe now... Bleed, I bleed, And I breathe, I breathe, I breathe- I breathe no more.
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Evanescence (Evanescence -- Anywhere but Home: Piano/Vocal/Chords)
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You play with great skill," he said. "Thank you." "Is that your favorite piece?" "It's my most difficult," Helen said, "but not my favorite." "What do you play when there's no one to hear?" The gentle question, spoken in that accent with vowels as broad as his shoulders, caused Helen's stomach to tighten pleasurably. Perturbed by the sensation, she was slow to reply. "I don't remember the name of it. A piano tutor taught it to me long ago. For years I've tried to find out what it is, but no one has ever recognized the melody." "Play it for me." Calling it up from memory, she played the sweetly haunting chords, her hands gentle on the keys. The mournful chords never failed to stir her, making her heart ache for things she couldn't name. At the conclusion, Helen looked up from the keys and found Winterborne staring at her as if transfixed. He masked his expression, but not before she saw a mixture of puzzlement, fascination, and a hint of something hot and unsettling. "It's Welsh," he said. Helen shook her head with a laugh of wondering disbelief. "You know it?" "'A Ei Di'r Deryn Do.' Every Welshman is born knowing it." "What is it about?" "A lover who asks a blackbird to carry a message to his sweetheart." "Why can't he go to her himself?" Helen realized they were both speaking in hushed tones, as if they were exchanging secrets. "He can't find her. He's too deep in love- it keeps him from seeing clearly." "Does the blackbird find her?" "The song doesn't say," he said with a shrug. "But I must know the ending to the story," Helen protested. Winterborne laughed. It was an irresistible sound, rough-soft and sly. When he replied, his accent had thickened. "That's what comes o' reading novels, it is. The story needs no ending. That's not what matters." "What matters, then?" she dared to ask. His dark gaze held hers. "That he loves. That he's searching. Like the rest of us poor devils, he has no way of knowing if he'll ever have his heart's desire.
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Lisa Kleypas (Cold-Hearted Rake (The Ravenels, #1))
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Ask Mrs. Pontellier what she would like to hear me play,” she requested of Robert. She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert carried her message to Edna at the window. A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon every one as they saw the pianist enter. There was a settling down, and a prevailing air of expectancy everywhere. Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman’s favor. She would not dare to choose, and begged that Mademoiselle Reisz would please herself in her selections. Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind. She sometimes liked to sit in the room of mornings when Madame Ratignolle played or practiced. One piece which that lady played Edna had entitled β€œSolitude.” It was a short, plaintive, minor strain. The name of the piece was something else, but she called it β€œSolitude.” When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him. Another piece called to her mind a dainty young woman clad in an Empire gown, taking mincing dancing steps as she came down a long avenue between tall hedges. Again, another reminded her of children at play, and still another of nothing on earth but a demure lady stroking a cat. The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier’s spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.
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Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
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The Pretender" I'm going to rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway I'm going to pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again Amen Say it again Amen I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening I've been aware of the time going by They say in the end it's the wink of an eye And when the morning light comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again Amen Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there Ah the laughter of the lovers As they run through the night Leaving nothing for the others But to choose off and fight And tear at the world with all their might While the ships bearing their dreams Sail out of sight I'm going to find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put our dark glasses on And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes streaming in We'll get up and do it again Get it up again I'm going to be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can buy Though true love could have been a contender Are you there? Say a prayer for the Pretender Who started out so young and strong Only to surrender Jackson Browne, The Pretender (1976)
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Jackson Browne (Jackson Browne -- The Pretender: Piano/Vocal/Chords (Jackson Browne Classic Songbook Collection))
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Before leaving the earth altogether, let us as: How does Music stand with respect to its instruments, their pitches, the scales, modes and rows, repeating themselves from octave to octave, the chords, harmonies, and tonalities, the beats, meters, and rhythms, the degrees of amplitude (pianissimo, piano, mezzo-piano, mezzo-forte, forte, fortissimo)? Though the majority go each day to the schools where these matters are taught, they read when time permits of Cape Canaveral, Ghana, and Seoul. And they’ve heard tell of the music synthesizer, magnetic tape. They take for granted the dials on radios and television sets. A tardy art, the art of Music. And why so slow? Is it because, once having learned a notation of pitches and durations, musicians will not give up their Greek? Children have been modern artists for years now. What is it about Music that sends not only the young but adults too as far into the past as they can conveniently go? The module? But our choices never reached around the globe, and in our laziness, when we changed over to the twelve-tone system, we just took the pitches of the previous music as though we were moving into a furnished apartment and had no time to even take the pictures off the walls. What excuse? That nowadays things are happening so quickly that we become thoughtless? Or were we clairvoyant and knew ahead of time that the need for furniture of any kind would disappear? (Whatever you place there in front of you sits established in the air.) The thing that was irrelevant to the structures we formerly made, and this was what kept us breathing, was what took place within them. Their emptiness we took for what it was – a place where anything could happen. That was one of the reasons we were able when circumstances became inviting (chances in consciousness, etc.) to go outside, where breathing is child’s play: no walls, not even the glass ones which, though we could see through them, killed the birds while they were flying.
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John Cage (A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings)