Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness sake."

Bill Maher

I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. ... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think Penny Lane is worth 10 dead kids. ... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.

Bill Anderson

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Beth Gibbons

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

Beth Moore

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

Beth Moore

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,

Bob Marley

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

Bob Marley

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Bob Marley

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs

Bob Marley

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right.

Bob Marley

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Bill Withers

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

Bill Wyman

You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

Bill Wyman

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

Bill Watterson

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

Bob Hope

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Birdy

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Birdman

I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.

Black Elk

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

Bill Frisell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Bill Goldberg

I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.

Bill Goldberg

I am always a competitor and my wife and son have never seen me wrestle.

Betty Comden

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Betty Buckley

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Betty Smith

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

Betty Smith

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

Bette Midler

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.

Benji Madden

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

Benji Madden

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

Benji Madden

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

Benmont Tench

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.