Song Quotes

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.

This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the being of the entire universe. It is the eternal song of the Divine.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.

I'm a little drunk on you, and high on summertime.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.

Optimism is my best defense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.