This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

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

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.