English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign.”
—Albert Goldman (b. 1927)

“Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)