Quotes about song
song people together
And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song. Kid Rock
song cash knows
I know every Skynyrd and about all Johnny Cash songs.
song obsessed intervention
I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it. Margaret Cho
song love-you men
I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.
song giving musical
I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it. Mel Brooks
song world lines
A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line. Quincy Jones
song art children
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it. Paula Rego
song father singing
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Terry Pratchett
song writing artist
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. Terri Clark
song ayahuasca information-processing
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular. Terence McKenna
song feelings different
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. Scott Ian
song appreciate difficult
It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot. Shreya Ghoshal
song people trying
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. Taylor Swift
song stress car
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
song writing thinking
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
song writing simple
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.
song writing ideas
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
song writing who-i-am
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
song men sea
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad
song art history
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
song thinking world
I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world. Karrie Webb
song events dishes
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. Leonard Cohen
song writing hard-work
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
song gratitude stars
Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude! John Kendrick Bangs
song pain world
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing. Lionel Richie
song thinking america
I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song. Linda Ronstadt
song eye light
In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes Peter Gabriel
song men hands
song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone. Peter S. Beagle
song lines singers
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. Phyllis Diller
song voice bird
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing. Rabindranath Tagore
song pain soul
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
song writing men
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine. Kevin Kline
song writing honest
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. Katy Perry