Famous Quotes & Sayings

Huey Lewis

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

Huey Lewis

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Howard Schultz

Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.

Howard Dean

Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

Howard Dean

I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

Honore de Balzac

Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

Hasil Adkins

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Hassan Nasrallah

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

James Broughton

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

James Blunt

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

James Blunt

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

James Blunt

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

James Blunt

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

James Blunt

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

James Blunt

The song is about love, life, fear and hope… and more than anything, you… and me…

James Blunt

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

James Blunt

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

James Brown

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

James Brown

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

James Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Jakob Dylan

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Jakob Dylan

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Jakob Dylan

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively...writing songs was king

Jakob Dylan

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Jakob Dylan

I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Jackie DeShannon

When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

Jackie DeShannon

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

Jackie DeShannon

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Jackie Evancho

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

Jackie Evancho

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

Jackie Evancho

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.