Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

There's that kind of song, "Whoah baby, I love you," which doesn't have a visual element, but a very strong emotional element, and these are the great songs to me - those ones that you put them on and they just make you feel great, or whatever.

Nick Cave

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Nick Cave

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

Nick Cave

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

Nick Carter

With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.

Nanci Griffith

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Nanci Griffith

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

Nanci Griffith

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nanci Griffith

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Namie Amuro

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

Nana Mouskouri

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Nana Mouskouri

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

Mose Allison

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

Mose Allison

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

Mose Allison

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

Mose Allison

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

Mose Allison

If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.

Mose Allison

I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.

Mose Allison

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Mose Allison

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Sherman Alexie

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Seth MacFarlane

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

Seth Rogen

We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it's kind of their prayer that they say every morning, because we found that just to have an arbitrary song felt too unrealistic within the reality of our talking food movie.

Sebastian Stan

You're always remembering songs you wanna sing except when you're actually at karaoke.

Sebastian Bach

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

Sebastian Bach

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.

Sebastian Bach

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.

Sebastian Bach

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

Sebastian Faulks

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

Sebastian Faulks

As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

Scott Simon

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

Ray Brown

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.