Quotes about song
song blood joy
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
song writing thinking
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs...A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus. Lenny Kravitz
song pigs government
I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna. Thom Yorke
song believe feelings
Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer. Thia Megia
song home mtv
If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster. Lewis Black
song writing thinking
When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness. Juliana Hatfield
song powerful messages
I know not every song has to be a powerful message. Kacey Musgraves
song heartache bliss
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. K. D. Lang
song iron blood
This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron. Otto von Bismarck
song folks folk-songs
If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song Oscar Isaac
song moving passion
The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead. Kathryn Stockett
song america want
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? Kanye West
song black firsts
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
song army white
George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.
song heart sky
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
song deceased ifs
If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
song games names
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
song feels supposed-to-be
Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?
song life-is
Nothing in life is promised except death.
song choices lied
There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet. Kami Garcia
song hendrix favourite
[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.
song jesus sex
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
song paid knows
I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
song self firsts
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
song thinking paris
I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!
song white black
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
song dark america
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
song angel glasses
They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?
song clothes jail
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.
song thinking leather-jackets
What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.
song real artist
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
song rap dark
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.
song drug sierra-leone
Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs