Quotes about son
song moving thinking
I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad. Paul McCartney
song writing eras
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
song successful magic
The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
song writing thinking
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
song loss lovely
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
song writing years
I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
song writing thinking
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
song mean writing
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
song writing
Every love song I write is for Linda.
song writing records
I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
song writing hey
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
song play mind
Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
song writing thinking
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
song silly people
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
song thinking appreciate
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
song thinking trying
I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
song writing thinking
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
song kids thinking
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
song rocks long
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
song cuz noise
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
song two together
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
song sex lasts
There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
song writing ideas
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
song writing say-anything
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
song heart people
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
song moving writing
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song. Patty Griffin
song men voice
Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
song smell way
There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that. Patton Oswalt
song significant
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words. Peter Garrett
song learning men
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Percy Bysshe Shelley
song heaven sorrow
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
song philosophy hands
I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
song grief night
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!