Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Daniel Ek

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

David Fricke

With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

David Foster Wallace

...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

David Cook

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

David Cook

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

David Cook

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

David Cook

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

David Coverdale

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Rumi

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Rosa Luxemburg

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.

Roger Zelazny

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Susan Cain

Every American was to become a performing self.

Sugata Mitra

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Storm Jameson

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is self-transcendence

Sri Chinmoy

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

Ginger Mullins

Those photo albums where in the laundry room, and that's where (investigators) said the fire started. Everything else inside that room was burned beyond recognition, just like most things everywhere else in the house. How those photo albums survived, I have no idea.

Bobby Moynihan

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

Barry Gibb

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.