Through all Eternity toThee A joyful Song I'll raise, For oh! Eternity's too short To utter all thy Praise.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.453, 9  Aug.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

-Armstrong, Louis known as Satchmo
Quoted in the NewYork Times,7  Jul1971.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  And Even Now,'The Pines'.

Her funeral sermon (which was long And followed bya sacred song) Mentioned her virtues, it is true, But dwelt upon her vices too.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Rebecca'.

The song is ended But the melody lingers on.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  Song from Ziegfeld Follies.

Listen kid, take myadviceönever hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
Comment to the young Cole Porter, attributed.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we 98 wept, whenwe remembered Zion.We hanged ourharps uponthewillows inthemidst thereof.For therethey that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one ofthesongs of Zion.Howshall wesing theL'ssong in a strange land?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms137:1^4.

The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon1:1.

Cantate Domino canticum novum, quia mirabilia fecit. Sing to the Lord a new song, because he has done marvellous things. See Book of Common Prayer143:46.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Psalm 97:1 (Psalm 98:1  Authorized Version).

   And this the burthen of his song, For ever used to be, I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

-Bickerstaffe, Isaac
  Love in a Village, act1, sc.2.

Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing praises lustily unto him with a good courage.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 33:3.

O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm100:1.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'Home- Thoughts, from Abroad'.

Wrote one songöand in my brain I sing it, Drew one angelöborne, see, on my bosom!

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', closing lines.

I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

-Browning, Robert
  'Shop', stanza 21.

   Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

-Burns, Robert
  'Afton Water', stanza1.

I'll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

-Rochdale
  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, l.5^6.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

-Carman, (William) Bliss
  Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

And for ther is so gret diversite In Englissh and in writing of oure tonge, So prey I God that non myswrite the, Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge. And red wherso thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde,God I biseche!

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.5, l.1793^8.

Soy el cantor deAme¤  rica auto¤  ctono y salvaje; mi lira tiene un alma, mi canto un ideal. Mi verso no se mece colgado de un ramaje con un vaive¤  n pausado de hamaca tropical. I am the aboriginal and savage singer of America; my lyre has a soul, my song has an ideal. My poetry does not swing from the branches with the slow movement of a tropical hammock.

-Ch'in Chia   c.150
  Alma  Ame¤  rica,'Blaso¤   n' (translated as'Blazon',1935).