Quotes about son
song years people
I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people. Ronnie Milsap
song breathing skills
I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's music. Yet there are stylists whose technical skills are so underdeveloped they can sing only their own songs their own way. They might be remembered for their hits longer than I am. I'll probably be working longer than they are. I can sing whatever the times and the trends demand.
song successful fans
I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever. Ronnie Hawkins
son fighting people
One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?
song funny-things long
I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences. Ronny Cox
song years radio
I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio. Ronnie Spector
song crazy madness
I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.
song baby hearing
So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.
song kids college
Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof. Roky Erickson
song writing names
You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else. Roger Waters
song falling-in-love book
I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
song writing thinking
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
song father creativity
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
song peace children
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through. Rod Stewart
song profound written
You're every love song ever written.
son done said
How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?
song able honest
I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
song optimism defense
Optimism is my best defense.
song play black
My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio. Robin Thicke
song writing white
Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.
song inspiration writing
Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.
song arrangements
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs. Robin Trower
song thinking way
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
song eye hands
A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ... Roberta Flack
song eye rose
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
song pain rock-and-roll
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
song writing night
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night. Robert Wyatt
song culture accessibility
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
song character adventure
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
song writing thinking
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.
song sorry done
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
song people frank
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
song writing doe
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.