Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.

John Landis

It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the video business works now, the artist and the record label send out a song to a bunch of different directors and say, 'What would you do with this?' Then everyone has to come up with an idea and bid on it. For me, it's like, 'Hey, you want me to do it? Then pay me. I'm not auditioning for you.'

John Lee Hooker

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

John Barrowman

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Jody Watley

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

Jimmy Durante

Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

Jimmy Durante

Start off each day with a song

Jimmy Chamberlin

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Jimmy Cliff

I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

Jimmy Cliff

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Jimmy Cliff

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Jimmy Cliff

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

Jimmy Buffett

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

Jimmy Buffett

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Jimmy Buffett

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Jimmy Buffett

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

Jimmy Buffett

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

Jim Leyland

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

Joanna Garcia

Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.

Joanna Newsom

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

Joanna Newsom

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

Joanna Newsom

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Joanna Newsom

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Joanna Newsom

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

Joanna Newsom

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not.

Joanna Newsom

My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

Joanna Newsom

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

Joanna Newsom

I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

Estelle

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

Gretchen Wilson

It's the most nerve-racking song to be singing.

Tamara Tunie

I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

Diane Warren

You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.

Dhani Harrison

I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'