Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cass Elliot

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Cass Elliot

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

Cass McCombs

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

Cass McCombs

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

Cass McCombs

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Cass McCombs

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

Cass McCombs

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

Cass McCombs

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

Cass McCombs

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

Cassandra Peterson

Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was really big. And I got to go back by the stage door, and he autographed a piece of paper for me and I just, I went crazy.

Cass Sunstein

I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and "Hard Rain," people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis - probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.

Charice Pempengco

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

Chantal Kreviazuk

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

Chantal Kreviazuk

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Chaka Khan

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

Chaka Khan

If I love a song, I make it mine.

Chaka Khan

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

Chaka Khan

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

Chaka Khan

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

Chance The Rapper

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

Charlie Hunnam

Right before I got Sons of Anarchy, I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is a sad song.

Charles M. Schulz

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry...

Charles M. Schulz

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

Charles Ives

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?

Benjamin Netanyahu

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

Bob Saget

Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?

Bob Saget

My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

Bob Casey, Jr.

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

Bing Crosby

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

Bill Maher

All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.