Quotes about song
song medicine
..my music isn't just music- its medicine. Kanye West
song jesus pieces
I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless 'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless
song track gone
Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life
song thank-god too-cool
Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.
song stars light
I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
song sky
We gonna touch the sky
song rocks giving
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.
song may blizzard
I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written Judy Collins
song too-much planes
I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
song writing play
When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs. Patrick Stump
song fall boys
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
song thinking giving
Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained. Paramahansa Yogananda
song play mind
Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica. Paul McCartney
song kids thinking
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
song sex lasts
There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
song calling world
Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me Elvis Presley
song feet people
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.
song good-day written
Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song. Joan Armatrading
song writing people
I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things. Joan Baez
song real writing
What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy! John Fogerty
song writing form
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode. I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure. Jonathan Lethem
song banality said
Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song. Jonathan Franzen
song writing albums
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time. Kate Voegele
song oil water
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. James Lee
song beach boys
You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. John McCain
song writing kind
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. John Frusciante
song feels turns
For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. Geddy Lee
song writing boss
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. Gavin Rossdale
song writing simple
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154. Gail Collins
song sweet littles
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. Gabrielle Zevin
song reality thinking
I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality. Freida Pinto
song writing looks
You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet. Maggie Stiefvater
song writing careers
I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs. Macklemore