I can't sleep…
Someone once told me the reason songs get stuck in our head is because the mind wants to hear them to completion. Remembering only a refrain it’ll repeat.
The best way, then, to get a song out of your head is to listen to the whole thing.
~ Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa: A Novel (Soft Skull Press, Oct 1, 2019)
Quote Source: Thanks Beth @ Alive on All Channels
[…] whales sing the same song,
all of them, across the globe
in the chill of the Arctic
and while lazing through the Pacific for a year
and suddenly change their tone,
all of them at once.
The first few hours of that new language
filling the ocean with sonic waves
that ricochet wildly,
finally accidentally intersecting in such a way that is
where have you been I’ve missed you so much.
– Jenna Ogilvie, from “Rosetta Stone“
Sources: Photo and Poem via Your Eyes Blaze Out
I had some dreams,
they were clouds in my coffee
clouds in my coffee,
and…
~ Carly Simon, You’re So Vain
Quote Source: Thank you Dan @ Your Eyes Blaze Out. Image Source: Thank you Susan @ Licht Years
“Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and neoclassical musician. His music is ambient, meditative and often introspective, drawing on minimalism, world music and contemporary pop. He has made a significant impact in the film world, with four international awards to his name.” Here he performs Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) with Alessia Tondo. You can find the English lyrics at this link.
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Source Credit: Thank you Rachel!
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