Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sammy Hagar

I always liked a good love song and, I dig being in love.

Sammy Hagar

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

Sammy Hagar

"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.

Sammy Hagar

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

Sammy Hagar

I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

Sammy Hagar

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

Sammy Hagar

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

Sammy Hagar

I've always been into writing love songs.

Sammy Hagar

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

Sammy Hagar

I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .

Sammy Hagar

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

Sammy Hagar

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Sammy Hagar

I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

T-Pain

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

T-Pain

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

T-Pain

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

T-Pain

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

T-Pain

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

Sylvia Browne

Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

Sydney J. Harris

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

Suzy Bogguss

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Suzanne Somers

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

Suzanne Vega

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

Suzanne Vega

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

Suzanne Vega

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

Taylor Kitsch

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

Taylor Dane

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Taylor Dane

My son always makes me feel vulnerable.

Scott Adams

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Ray Stevens

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

Ray Romano

Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.

Ray LaMontagne

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.