Quotes about song
song art flower
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. Pablo Picasso
song art bird
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
song writing play
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there. Paul Stanley
song musical good-times
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'. Paul McDonald
song real writing
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.
song average years
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time Paul Muldoon
song gratitude men
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege. Paul Brunton
song fighting gun
I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song. Ken Curtis
song writing giving
But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them. Keegan Allen
song writing beer
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer. Keanu Reeves
song writing thinking
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. Kazuo Ishiguro
song stories wanted
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
song real looks
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
song issues chance
Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
song writing trying
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. Kristian Bush
song writing style
You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most are in the lyrics that 'show' more than 'tell.' I like to describe what the listener is seeing and let them make up the middle rather than telling them.
song thinking people
I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke. Kreayshawn
song writing people
There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with. Kris Allen
song writing thinking
I think America sees someone like myself, and they see it's not just a voice. It's the musicality of it all. People see that you can play an instrument and think you can immediately write songs.
song writing inspire
When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
song writing men
I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view. Kool Keith
song character emotional
Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
song writing mcdonalds
If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
song book people
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. Kinky Friedman
song drama military
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. Olivier Messiaen
song records hard
It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves. Olivia Newton-John
song people rejection
Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.
song grease duets
John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One That I Want" was named the #1 duet in history and, during a text chat with John letting him know he said "we should record a Christmas song." Of course I said yes.
song fun symphony
I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.
song blessed careers
I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.
song fun thinking
John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!
song fun years
A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.
song kids years
Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that. Marc Almond