Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Sherman

Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

Richard Sherman

The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.

Richard Sherman

My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

Richard Steele

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Simmons

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

Richard Simmons

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

Richard Hawley

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Richard Hell

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.

Richard Armour

My day-old son is plenty scrawny, his mouth is wide with screams, or yawny; His ears seem larger than he's needing, His nose is flat, his chin's receding. His skin is very, very red, He has no hair upon his head, And yet I'm proud as proud can be, To hear you say he looks like me.

Redd Foxx

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

Redd Foxx

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

Redd Foxx

Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I don't have many easy songs.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.

Sammy Hagar

I always liked a good love song and, I dig being in love.

Sammy Hagar

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

Sammy Hagar

"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.

Sammy Hagar

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

Sammy Hagar

I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

Sammy Hagar

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

Sammy Hagar

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

Sammy Hagar

I've always been into writing love songs.

Sammy Hagar

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

Sammy Hagar

I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .

Sammy Hagar

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

Sammy Hagar

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Sammy Hagar

I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

T-Pain

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

T-Pain

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

T-Pain

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

T-Pain

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

T-Pain

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.