Nick Drake quotes
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“If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .”
-- Nick DrakeSource : Song: Hazey Jane II, Album: Bryter Layter
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“Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.”
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“Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?”
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“I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.”
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“I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.”
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“Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.”
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“If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.”
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“And see she flies, and she is everywhere.”
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“I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Brighten my northern sky.”
-- Nick DrakeSource : Song: Northern Sky, Album: Bryter Layter, 1971
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“...you're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind”
-- Nick DrakeSource : Song: Time Has Told Me, Album: Five Leaves Left
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“Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.”
-- Nick DrakeSource : Song: Fruit Tree
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