Quotes with cymbal

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

  Barry Cornwall
  English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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• When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

  Bob Newhart
  American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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• With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

  Ben Folds
  American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pictures
• tinkling
• cappella
• anything
• falling
• tender

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