Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Finn

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

Tim Finn

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Tim Finn

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

Tia Mowry

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

Tia Mowry

I'm so obsessed and involved with my son.

Thurston Moore

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

Thurston Moore

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Thurston Moore

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing

Sam Harris

Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?

Sallust

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

Russell Page

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

Russell Sherman

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

Russell Peters

When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like.

Russell Simmons

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

Sam Rayburn

Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.

Saadi

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

Rumi

Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

Rumi

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Rumi

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

Rosa Luxemburg

Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.

Ron Pope

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

Roger Zelazny

A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

Susan Polis Schutz

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?

Susan Boyle

I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!

Suge Knight

When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.

Sufjan Stevens

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

Sufjan Stevens

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.

Sufjan Stevens

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Simon Armitage

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Sidney Altman

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sid Caesar

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.