Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Brad Paisley

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".

Ben E. King

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Richard Rose

Anything you can do like that can be helpful, anything that can open eyes up.

David Morris

The temptation is to pick the eyes out of the wines to make a great wine, a trophy-winning wine,

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

Matt Damon

a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales as seen through the eyes of Terry Gilliam in a wild fantasy world only he could create.

Mike Gillespie

The one thing that he has done is pitch consistently. It's not overpowering, knock-your-eyes-out kind of stuff, but it's good stuff and he throws strikes. He doesn't get rattled or become afraid, you kind of know what you're getting.

Patrick Walsh

After all we went through this summer, all we wanted was the'05 season to get started. I had tears in my eyes when I walked on to the field tonight thinking about all we went through. We could have lost by 700 points, but at least the'05 season had started.

Jeff Butler

Some people and I don't see eye to eye on this, but (state officials are) giving us a wonderful opportunity, an opportunity they haven't given other communities.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Brian Andreas

When you start to crack open, don’t waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift....

Brad Paisley

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Jane Hirshfield

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

James Wan

When you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to, because I'm so movied out, right, I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is with the little spare time that I have is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

James Wright

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

Demi Lovato

It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life -- surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.

Brian Regan

I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.