Quotes about son
song love-you generosity
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. Jason Mraz
song philosophy writing
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
song writing healing
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
song home feelings
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
song yoga walking-meditation
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
song writing thinking
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
song sacred next
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
song wind bird
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
song pushing different
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different. Hillary Scott
song two people
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. Hilary Rosen
song taken granted
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. Herbert Croly
song speech use
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song. Herbert Read
song calling hours
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours? F. Scott Fitzgerald
song nice boys
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.
song voice deathless
that voice was a deathless song.
song thinking hands
His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.
song writing firsts
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. Evan Dando
song writing minutes
The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
song memories book
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
song writing stories
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies. Eugene Hutz
song water theatre
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. Eugene Ionesco
song beach new-york
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it. Estelle
song manhattan velvet
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. Ezra Koenig
song thinking ideas
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
song bridges building
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. Eugene Chadbourne
song singing littles
Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.
sonnet
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
song ira firsts
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me Ethel Merman
song years albums
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish. Etta James
song forever singing
You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President – had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She’s going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I’m going to sing it for y’all…
song long-ago way
I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
song artist records
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
song sorry feelings
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.