Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Ek

Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

Daniel Ek

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

David Fricke

With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

David Foster Wallace

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

David Foster Wallace

...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

David Cook

I always believe that every song tells a story, so the last thing I want to do is edit out like the meat of the story. I would pick songs based off a), whether I felt like I could do anything with them, and b) whether I felt like I could keep the story intact. And then you sit in with one of the piano players and one of the vocal coaches and kind of work out your arrangements that way.

David Cook

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

David Cook

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

David Cook

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

David Coverdale

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

David Coverdale

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

David Coverdale

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Antin

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Archuleta

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

Curtis Jackson

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Curtis Jackson

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

Curtis Jackson

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

Corey Hart

Above these universal themes Truth Will Set U Free is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

Corey Haim

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Corey Feldman

With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.

Corey Taylor

When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.