Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benmont Tench

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Benmont Tench

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Bill Gates

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Bill Gates

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Bob Weir

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Bob Weir

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Bob Weir

The same song on a different day was a different song.

Bob Schneider

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

Ariel Pink

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

Ariel Pink

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

Ariel Pink

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

Ariel Pink

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

Ariana Grande

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Diane Duane

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!

Diane Duane

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.

Diana Ross

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Diana Ross

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Derrick Rose

My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.

Delta Goodrem

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

Delta Goodrem

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Delta Goodrem

I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

Delta Goodrem

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Demi Lovato

Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us

Demi Lovato

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

Demi Lovato

Like fire and rain, (fire and rain) you can dirve me insane But i cant stay mad at you for anything, Were venus and mars, (venus and mars) were like diffrents stars, but your the harmony to every song i sing, And i wouldnt change a thing..

Demi Lovato

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

Demi Lovato

Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.

Demi Lovato

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

Demetri Martin

I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.