Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cat Stevens

You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Cat Stevens

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

Cat Stevens

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

Cat Stevens

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

Cassandra Clare

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.

Cassandra Clare

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.

Cassandra Clare

Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!

George Eliot

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

Gotye

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

Gore Vidal

Women are put on earth only to provide men with sons.

Gillian Welch

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.

Gillian Welch

You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.

Gillian Jacobs

Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

Hasil Adkins

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Hassan Nasrallah

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

James Broughton

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

James Blunt

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

James Blunt

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

James Blunt

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

James Blunt

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

James Blunt

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

James Blunt

The song is about love, life, fear and hope… and more than anything, you… and me…

James Blunt

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

James Blunt

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

James Brown

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

James Brown

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

James Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

Jakob Dylan

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Jakob Dylan

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

Jakob Dylan

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively...writing songs was king

Jakob Dylan

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Jakob Dylan

I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.

Jackie DeShannon

When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.