Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Birdy

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Birdman

I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.

Black Elk

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

Bill Frisell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Bill Goldberg

I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.

Bill Goldberg

I am always a competitor and my wife and son have never seen me wrestle.

Betty Comden

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

Betty Buckley

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Betty Smith

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

Betty Smith

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

Bette Midler

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.

Benji Madden

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

Benji Madden

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

Benji Madden

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

Benmont Tench

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Benmont Tench

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

Benmont Tench

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Bill Gates

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Bill Gates

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Bob Weir

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Bob Weir

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

Bob Weir

The same song on a different day was a different song.

Bob Schneider

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

Bob Uecker

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Bob Seger

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

Bob Seger

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

Bob Seger

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Bob Seger

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

Bob Seger

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

Bo Sanchez

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

Charlyne Yi

Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.