Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Timberlake

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Julie Burchill

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Julie Andrews

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

Julie Andrews

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

Judith Hill

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

Josh Jones

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

Josh Groban

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.

Josh Groban

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Josh Groban

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Josh Groban

There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.

Josh Groban

I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.

Josh Groban

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

Josh Groban

I'd give away my soul To hold you once again

Josh Groban

I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.

Katherine Dunham

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

Karan Johar

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Katharine Hepburn

Listen to the Song of Life

Karen Morley

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

Justin Hayward

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Justin Hayward

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

Justin Hayward

Nights in white satin never reaching the end Letters I've written never meaning to send Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before Just what the truth is I can't say any more Cause I love you Yes I love you Oh how I love you

Judith Wright

Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

Judith Viorst

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Josh McDermitt

Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

Joseph Conrad

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Josh Young

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

Joshua Homme

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

Josh Turner

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

Josh Turner

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

Josh Turner

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

Josh Turner

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.