Quotes about son
song sea half
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank. Gordon Lightfoot
song track records
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
song queens years
Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.
song school piano
I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.
song brother taken
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.
song hero titles
Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.
song perfect
There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.
son boys men
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
song sound break
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
son issues done
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. John Dryden
song player shining
I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine. John Mayall
song real writing
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
song sweet humorous
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one. John Marston
song horse past
Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. John Mayer
song home records
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
song character writing
The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.
song writing order
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
song stress writing
I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!
song spring flower
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours. John Lubbock
song feelings matter
I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter. John Lydon
song stones rolling
There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.
song writing epic
There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.
song grief past
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
song concerts certain
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
song writing fake
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.
song mean ideas
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
song thinking years
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
song memories believe
I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.
song desire able
I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
song writing easy
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
song rap years
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
song should-have band
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
song determination writing
Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff. John Legend