Quotes about son
song thinking laughing
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. Pete Seeger
song writing kids
There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.
song thinking differences
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.
song aggravation people
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
song art years
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. ... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. ... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. ...
song people talent
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
song singing want
A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
song writing thinking
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
song fighting
A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
song believe jail
Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
song should be-careful
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
song trying cards
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'
song book speech
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
song baby grandmother
Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.
song people ears
I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
song thinking fifteen
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.
song philosophical writing
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later. Phil Ochs
song mirrors musical
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
song mistake bullshit
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit
song peace people
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
song believe psychosis
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal. Peter Steele
song air topics
Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.
song writing style
Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
song writing wrists
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
song sex writing
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
song stuff natural
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. Peter Hammill
song believe interesting
I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
song couple people
Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
song morning spring
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. Rachel Carson
song men rude
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. Quintilian
song world lines
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. Quincy Jones
son hip-hop hips
My son is a hip-hop producer.
song shapes singers
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!