Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Fletcher

I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.

Darrell Issa

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Darius Rucker

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

Daryl Hall

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

Daryl Hall

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Daryl Hall

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Daryl Hall

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Danny Brown

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

Danny Boyle

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

Daisaku Ikeda

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Connie Francis

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Condoleezza Rice

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

Coco Lee

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.

Colbie Caillat

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Colbie Caillat

Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.

Colbie Caillat

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Colbie Caillat

What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.

Colbie Caillat

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Cole Porter

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Cole Porter

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

Colin Farrell

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Colin Firth

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

Daphne du Maurier

Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it.

Dan Reynolds

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

Dan Farmer

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Dan Fogelberg

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

Dan Fogelberg

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

Dan Fogelberg

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.