Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Nelson

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

Willie Nelson

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

Willie Nelson

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

Willie Nelson

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

Willie Nelson

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

Willie Nelson

When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.

Willie Nelson

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

William P. Young

When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

Robert Lanza

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Robert H. Schuller

I love my son and am proud of my son.

Robert Anton Wilson

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Ricky Martin

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Richard M. Nixon

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

Ric Ocasek

The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was

Ric Flair

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

Ric Flair

It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down!

Richard Ford

I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

Rich Mullins

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

Reba McEntire

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

Reba McEntire

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

Reba McEntire

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Reba McEntire

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

Reba McEntire

A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Reba McEntire

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Reba McEntire

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Reba McEntire

Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

Rebel Wilson

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

Reba McEntire

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Reba McEntire

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Reba McEntire

Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!

Reba McEntire

I think my song that reminds me of Mama is "I'm A Survivor" because she is one.

Robert Crumb

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.