Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Rahal

My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Amy Winehouse

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Amy Winehouse

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

Amy Winehouse

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Amy Winehouse

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Amy Winehouse

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Alexa Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Drew Carey

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

Doug Davidson

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

Doug E. Fresh

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

Donald Sutherland

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.

Donald Sutherland

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

Dwight L. Moody

The Son of God passed by the mansions and went down in a manger that He might sympathize with the lowly.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

Dr. Dre

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Dr. Dre

Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.

Dr. Dre

I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

Douglas William Jerrold

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Dorothy Fields

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Dorothy Fields

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Dorothy Fields

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

Dorothy Fields

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

Dorothy Fields

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

Dorothy Fields

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Dorothy Fields

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Dorothy Dunnett

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

Dorothy Day

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Doris Day

I like to sing love songs.

Doris Day

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

Donny Osmond

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donald Miller

Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

Don Henley

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.