Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

Billy Sherwood

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

Billy Sherwood

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

Bill Murray

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

Bill Murray

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.

Bertolt Brecht

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

Bernard Cornwell

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

Bernard Baruch

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

Chad Kroeger

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Chad Kroeger

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

Chad Kroeger

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

Chad Kroeger

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

Chad Kroeger

When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.

Chad Smith

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

Cassandra Wilson

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Cassandra Wilson

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Cass Elliot

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Cass Elliot

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Cass Elliot

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

Cass McCombs

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

Cass McCombs

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

Cass McCombs

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Cass McCombs

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

Cass McCombs

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

Cass McCombs

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

Cass McCombs

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

Cassandra Peterson

Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy.

Cass Sunstein

I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.

Carlos Mencia

Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you.

Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is a sad song.

Charles M. Schulz

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry...

Charles M. Schulz

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

Charles Ives

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?