Dhanush

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

Indian Actor

Patti Smith

I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William Blake wrote for the Christ child, and I set it to music, and the Vatican orchestra played the music.

American Musician

M. Jayachandran

Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing to her unborn child. I found the entire concept so beautiful.

Indian Composer

Jewel

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

Holly Near

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

Stephan Jenkins

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

American Poet

Alanis Morissette

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Canadian Musician

Mack Wilberg

There's something kind of wonderful about men singing lullabies.

American Composer

John Cage

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

Lullabies are commonly used in bedtime routines for children or in soothing situations.

Context of Use

Different cultures have their own traditional lullabies; try listening to some from around the world.

Cultural Variance

Lullabies often evoke feelings of nostalgia and comfort, reminding adults of their own childhood.

Emotional Connection

A lullaby doesn't have to be a song; calming sounds or words can also be a lullaby.

Beyond Songs

What acts as a lullaby can be very personal, influenced by individual experiences and preferences.

Personal Interpretation

Nature provides its own lullabies, like the sound of rain or waves, that naturally promote relaxation.

Nature's Lullabies

 this croaking lullaby has filled the nighttime air. But recent studies suggest that these frogs are in danger of playing their final note. Over the past few decades, amphibian populations have been rapidly disappearing worldwide. Nearly one-third of the world's amphibian species

Why are frogs...

 And then even lullabies, which all over the world we often use our most heartbreaking melodies to sing our newborns to sleep. Why on Earth do we do that? And then it's not just music, right? We like rainy days and tragic drama

The Hidden Power of Sad...

 Later that day, the other group gathered with flowers at the eternal flame under the victory monument. They stood together holding hands, and they started to sing the Belarusian lullaby, waiting for the police cars to arrive.

How to be fearless in...

 tomorrow fear of tomorrow became my lullaby shame became my shadow and I thought the only way to protect myself what's the highs my shame away two years go by my dad comes home you know I got some great news I got a

Heroes don’t always wear...

 started to ask myself whose fears was i really assuaging was it his or was it also mine hannah's curiosity led her around the world documenting songs and nighttime rituals for a project called living lullabies

Venturing into the Heart...

 and quietly began to read the words which he'd written as a message for his two little ones. His hands were shaking. And then, in a surprisingly quiet voice, he began to sing their favorite lullaby.

How storytelling helps...

 he used to sing her lullabies and whether it was a marijuana or whether it was the sound of his voice he used to do the trick I told you that this is a world which deals with appearances and

Emily Ainsworth: Inside...

 There is not one day I have not heard her beg God for the strength to raise us. Her earnest prayers have been the backdrop of my sleep and my only lullaby for as long as I can remember.

Elizabeth Zion: The need...

 Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Navigating the High Cost...

 eyes of a father and mother that brought you to see sing lullaby

Lullaby