English Song Originally

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

    He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English tongue, he is a master unrivaled. His felicity and power of expression surpass even his special merits as historian and critic.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A song is anything that can walk by itself.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    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)