Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Brunton

Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.

Patterson Hood

I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

Patterson Hood

When Adam's House Cat broke up in 1991, which was Cooley and my band for six years, I put my entire life, heart, and soul into that thing. I mean everything. I ended up getting divorced over it, and then the band broke up and I was left with nothing. I had nothing to show for six years of my life except for a finished record that still hasn't come out. And I went through a pretty deep, dark, two-year depression after that, [which] probably resulted in some of the earlier songs that became Drive-By Trucker songs, for that matter.

Patti Page

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

Patti Page

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

Patti Page

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Patsy Cline

You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

Patsy Cline

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Patsy Cline

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

Patti LaBelle

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Ivan Turgenev

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

Ishmael Beah

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

Isak Dinesen

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

Ishmael Reed

Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

Iris Dement

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Irrfan Khan

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

Irvine Welsh

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Iris Murdoch

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.

Imogen Heap

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

Imogen Heap

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

Idris Elba

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Hunter Parrish

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

Hunter Hayes

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

Hunter Hayes

My favorite song depends on the day, what I’m going through, what I’m feeling.

Hunter Hayes

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

Hunter Hayes

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

Hunter Hayes

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.

Gloria Naylor

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Swanson

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Giorgio Moroder

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

Harry S Truman

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

J Mascis

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

J. M. Coetzee

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.