Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

Frank Zappa

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.

Frank Zappa

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Fred Hammond

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

Fred Rogers

It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.

Frank Herbert

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

George H. W. Bush

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

George Harrison

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

George Harrison

We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

George Harrison

Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

Guru Nanak

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

Guru Nanak

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

Guru Nanak

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Guru Nanak

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

Guru Nanak

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Graham Russell

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

Graham Russell

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

Graham Russell

I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

Graham Russell

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

Graham Russell

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

Graham Parker

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Graham Parker

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Graham Parker

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

Graham Parker

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

Graham Nash

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Graham Nash

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

Graham Nash

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

Graham Nash

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Graham Nash

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.

H. P. Lovecraft

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

H. G. Wells

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

George Herbert

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

JC Chasez

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.