Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Taylor Swift

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

Taylor Swift

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

Taylor Swift

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Taylor Swift

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Taylor Swift

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Stanley Kunitz

It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.

Soren Kierkegaard

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

Stephen Stills

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Stephen Chbosky

in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

Stephen Chbosky

I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.

Stephen Chbosky

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

Stephen Chbosky

The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.

Stefano Langone

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Sophie Tucker

Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.

Sophie Tucker

I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

Sophie Tucker

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

Thomas Pynchon

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Tim Wise

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

Tim Burton

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Thomas Kinkade

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

Thomas Kinkade

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

Thomas Jefferson

The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.

Woody Allen

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.

Woody Allen

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

William Wordsworth

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

William Wordsworth

But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

William Wordsworth

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

William Wordsworth

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

William Shenstone

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

William Saroyan

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.