Song Quotes

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I know a lot of actors who live with kind of a soundtrack in their lives, even to go to the market. I'm not that kind of actor. I don't listen to songs. I actually like quiet.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

In summer, the song sings itself.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

The history of a people are found in its songs.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

There is danger in singing someone else's song.

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

The Christian church was born in song.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.