Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kylie Minogue

I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

Kylie Minogue

Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

Kylie Minogue

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

Neil Peart

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

Neil Peart

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Marco Rubio

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

Marc Cohn

I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Simon Armitage

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Sidney Altman

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sid Caesar

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

Sidney Crosby

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Sheryl Lee

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

Sheryl Crow

It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

Sheryl Crow

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

Sheryl Crow

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Sheryl Crow

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

Sheryl Crow

I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very popular particularly because a lot of young people are in rehab as well. In fact I'm thinking about going. It looks like loads of fun and I know my career will benefit from it.

Shel Silverstein

It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - "Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece.

Sharon Jones

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

Shane McAnally

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

Shania Twain

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

Neil Peart

Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

Neil Peart

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Neil Peart

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

Neil Peart

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Neil Patrick Harris

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

Natalie Merchant

For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful So, who will you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'Cause it's high time that you decide It's time to make up your own Your own state of mind Oh they told you life is long Be thankful when it's done Don't ask for more, be grateful But I tell you life is short Be thankful because Before you know it It will be over 'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short

Natalie Merchant

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

Natalie Imbruglia

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

Natalie Imbruglia

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.