Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Seeger

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Pete Seeger

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

Pete Seeger

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

Pete Seeger

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

Phil Ochs

I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.

Phil Ochs

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Phil Ochs

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

Phil Ochs

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

Peter Steele

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

Peter Steele

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

Peter Steele

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Peter Steele

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Peter Steele

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Hammill

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Peter Hammill

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

Rachel Carson

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Quintilian

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quincy Jones

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

Quincy Jones

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Quincy Jones

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Quincy Jones

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

Quincy Jones

Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that a great song, our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

Quentin Tarantino

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

Quentin Tarantino

When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

Quentin Tarantino

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

Quentin Tarantino

I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.

Quentin Tarantino

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.

Prince Royce

I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.

Prince William

There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

Prince

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do-there are only so many notes one human being can master...One of the reasons we're going out on the road and why we're titling this tour as "Musicology" is because we want to bring that back. We want to teach the kids and musicians of the future the art of song writing, the art of real musicianship.

Prince

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

Prince

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.