Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard of Clairvaux

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,

Bob Marley

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

Bob Marley

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Bob Marley

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

Bob Marley

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

Bob Marley

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Bill Withers

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

Bill Wyman

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

Bill Wyman

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

Bill Watterson

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

Bob Hope

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Birdy

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Black Elk

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

Bill Frisell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Betty Comden

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Betty Buckley

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Betty Smith

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

Betty Smith

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

Bette Midler

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.

Benji Madden

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

Benji Madden

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

Benji Madden

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

Benmont Tench

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Benmont Tench

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Benmont Tench

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Bill Gates

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Bob Weir

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Bob Weir

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Bob Weir

The same song on a different day was a different song.

Bob Schneider

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

Bob Seger

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.