Song Quotes

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.

True love opens the gates of time.

In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

. . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.

When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.

Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

If there's five dudes on a song, probably three of them are only really good.

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

Reality is that even if you come out with a really good song, all will go to waste without good promotion.

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree