Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daryl Hall

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Danny Brown

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Daisaku Ikeda

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Connie Francis

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Condoleezza Rice

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

Coco Lee

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

Colbie Caillat

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Thomas Gage

But, more importantly in this situation, he is a very experienced sailor. He would not have taken any unwarranted risks, especially having his youngest son with him.

Peter Eisenman

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

Aaliyah

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Billy Graham

On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.

Billy Graham

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

Billy Graham

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

Billy Graham

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Meryl Streep

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

Meryl Streep

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

Bjork

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Bjork

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

Bjork

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

Bjork

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

Colbie Caillat

Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

Colbie Caillat

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Colbie Caillat

What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

Colbie Caillat

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Cole Porter

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Cole Porter

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

Colin Farrell

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Colin Firth

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.