Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Grohl

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

David Wilkerson

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

David O. Russell

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

David McCallum

When I did Ben 10, I really didn't know anything about Ben 10. But when I went back to visit my son Pierre and told him what I'd just done, he said "You did a Ben 10?!?" and then he started yelling out to my grandson, "Luca, Luca, come here, Granddaddy did a Ben 10 show." You suddenly discover you're gratte-cul with a five-year-old, and that's pretty cool."

David Maraniss

You know, I'm too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says...

Dash Mihok

I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different.

Darren Fletcher

I want people to listen to the lyrics of each song and absorb the music fully before they look at me and make a judgment about what they think my music will or should sound like.

Darren Fletcher

I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.

Darrell Issa

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Darius Rucker

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

Daryl Hall

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

Daryl Hall

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Daryl Hall

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Daryl Hall

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Danny Brown

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Daisaku Ikeda

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Connie Francis

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Condoleezza Rice

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

Coco Lee

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

Colbie Caillat

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Colbie Caillat

Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

Colbie Caillat

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Colbie Caillat

What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

Colbie Caillat

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Cole Porter

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Cole Porter

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

Colin Farrell

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Colin Firth

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.