Quotes about song
song hate mean
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. Martin Gore
song names land
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings. Martin Heidegger
song heart dancing
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Marsha Norman
song love-you unique
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
song answers culture
I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. Mark McGrath
song writing kids
When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?" Mark Mothersbaugh
song mtv band
With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.
song mind trying
I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel. Mark Farner
song sex roles
Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song. Marilyn Monroe
song memorable doe
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything. Nikki Sixx
song perfect people
Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people. Nikki Giovanni
song trying negative
I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word. Nicole Scherzinger
song hard-times empowering
A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
song winning conquer
I came to win, to conquer, to thrive Nicki Minaj
song mean pelicans
I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly
song real thinking
I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
song rap character
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
song drama school
Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors. Nick Moran
song writing people
If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best. Nick Rhodes
song people listening
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. Nick Hornby
song talent more-time
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.
song past thinking
The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.
song people want
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.
song brother father
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. Matt Dillon
song heart
I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart. Matt Bomer
song piano play
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Matt Damon
song weather garbage
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news, Marvin Hamlisch
song people able
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
song law care
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. Mark Twain
song children dvds
Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs. Nicholas Stoller
song jesus crazy
We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.
song play want
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you. Nicholas Sparks
song couple eye
He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. He gave himself over to the feel of her body as it pressed against him, and they moved slowly in small circles on the sawdust-strewn floor, lost in a world that felt as though it had been created for just the two of them.