Quotes about son
song attention pay
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. Leonard Cohen
song men world
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
song crazy hair
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.
song rock-and-roll done
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
song artist touched
When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.
song humans activity
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
song art reality
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
song bottom-of-the-barrel trying
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
song catholic mysterious
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.
song eye government
I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.
song writing hard-work
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
song guy singing
When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy. Leighton Meester
song months messages
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human. Layne Staley
song careers perception
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
song thinking down-and
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
song people trying
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. Lars Ulrich
song america long
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. Langston Hughes
song pain laughter
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?
song rain sleep
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.
song snow darkness
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.
song heart love-someone
You love someone because they sing a song only your heart can understand. L. J. Smith
song gratitude stars
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude! John Kendrick Bangs
song war evening
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens. John Keats
song heart home
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
song spring thinking
Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.
song sweet kissing
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
song simple romance
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
song sweet poetry
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
song purple mouths
Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.
song firsts albums
I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album. John Deacon
song writing albums
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
song past people
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that. John Cusack
song suffering want
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. Lionel Blue