Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bliss Carman

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

Blake Shelton

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

Bo Burnham

What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Bo Burnham

I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

Billy Eckstine

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Billy Idol

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

Billy Gibbons

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Billy Gibbons

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

Billy Gibbons

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Joel

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Billy Joel

I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.

Billy Joel

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

Billy Joel

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.

Billy Joel

I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

Billy Joel

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Billy Joel

My songs are like my kids.

Billy Joel

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

Billy Joel

You can speak your mind But not on my time.

Billy Joel

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Billy Joel

Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

Billy Joel

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

Billy Joel

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Bill Johnson

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

Bill Johnson

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

Betty Who

I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.

Betty Who

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

Beyonce Knowles

The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

Beyonce Knowles

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Beyonce Knowles

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

Beyonce Knowles

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.