Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Folds

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

Ben Folds

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Ben Folds

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Carl Sandburg

There is no song to your singing.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Cameron Crowe

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

Cameron Crowe

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

Cameron Crowe

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Cam Newton

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

C. S. Lewis

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Miley Cyrus

Some of the fanmail is interesting! Some of it's the lyrics to the songs and stuff, and they'll like, send me their favourite lines, which is cool to...know what people are liking. Most of them are really cool to read.

Miley Cyrus

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

Miley Cyrus

When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I am!'

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Burton Cummings

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

Burton Cummings

As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.

Busta Rhymes

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

Busta Rhymes

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else

Busta Rhymes

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

Celine Dion

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

Celine Dion

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Celine Dion

Every song will be a video. Its going to be very spectacular.

Celine Dion

There are so many different ways to say "I love you" and to talk about love in the songs.

Burt Bacharach

I always wanted to write a song with him, ... and we got a chance.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

I don't have the same son I had before. He's not the same Kenny.

Meryl Streep

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

Meryl Streep

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.