Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kelley

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

Charles Kelley

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

Charles Kingsley

Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us, who spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God? Dare we murmur against such a God?

Charles Dance

I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.

Charles Churchill

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Charles Churchill

If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.

Harry Chapin

My son turned 10 just the other day. He said, 'Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play - Can you teach me to throw?' I said, 'Not today, I got a lot to do.' He said, 'That's OK.'

My son tells me all the time that he's going to be No. 20.

Ted Turner

My son is now an ""entrepreneur."" That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Martin Sheen

My son is here because of a drug overdose,

Stephen Farrell

My son had called 911, and the paramedics took over from there.

Sophie B. Hawkins

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Dave Mustaine

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

David Nicholls

It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

David Ives

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

Ahmed Ben Bella

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

Billy Corgan

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

Billy Corgan

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

Bill Shankly

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

Bill Shankly

Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan)

Bill Engvall

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

Bill Engvall

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

Bill Cosby

...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

Big Sean

I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.

Bert Williams

People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Bert McCracken

I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none of my favourites. Just the fact that we do have fans waiting here, that's exciting enough.

Bert McCracken

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart ... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.

Bernie Taupin

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

Bernie Taupin

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.