English Song Originally

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

    “The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “I could take the Harlem night
    and wrap around you,
    Take the neon lights and make a crown,
    Take the Lenox Avenue buses,
    Taxis, subways,
    And for your love song tone their rumble down.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

    “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)