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Quotable Quotes in Pop Songs

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by oceanRain

eg. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde/Pretenders

Doesn't gotta be all "literary" on me ass...borrowed lines is the idea here.

oceanRain | 20 Jun '08, 22:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Nick Cave goes on about

"The starry heavens above me and the moral law within" which is stolen from Kant

"You say ere thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn" in the Smiths Cemetery Gates is a deliberate misquote of a line in Shakespeare's Richard II


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Isobel Campbell reads a big chunk of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle at the end of Belle & Sebastian's I Could Be Dreaming

The lyrics to British Sea Power's 'Something Wicked' are copied almost word for word from a memoir of the Lake District called The Shining Levels


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'The Valleys' by Electrelane is a setting of the Sassoon poem A Letter Home


isn't

The Verve's History largely nicked from...Keats?


true story.

It was also the best thing they ever did.

I'm waiting for someone to say Blaise Bailey Finnegan III....


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