Quotes about song
song fairness shallow
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme
song here-i-am eight
I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. Mel Torme
song cities ideas
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me. Mel Tillis
song love-life gay
All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless. Mary Johnston
song war thinking
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. Michael Franti
song world firsts
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world. Michael Franti
song heart laughing
Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry. Michael Franti
song laughing feelings
I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song. Michael Franti
song careers rocks
For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career. Michael Cerveris
song school italian
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. Michael Cerveris
song jukebox needs
I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox. Michael Chabon
song unique piano
I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful. Mia Wasikowska
song often-is
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is. Mick Fleetwood
song air world
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music. Michel Martelly
song circles mind
Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind. Michel Legrand
song team swans
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. Michel Patini
song mtv awards
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason. Michel Gondry
song home garden
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home. Michel Gondry
song america together
America is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while. Michael Josephson
song writing careers
I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career. Michael J. Fox
song goal records
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have. Martina McBride
song honesty integrity
What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class. Martina McBride
song men relate
I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too. Martina McBride
song teacher pain
The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born Martina McBride
song writing way
I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else! Martha Wainwright
song dad love-you
We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives. Martha Stewart
song morning recording-studio
I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs. Mark Ronson
song bass littles
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat. Mark Ronson
song thinking needs
I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song. Mark Ronson
song thinking artist
I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song. Mark Ronson
song careers numbers
You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered. Mark Ronson
song prayer smell
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God. Mark Driscoll
song husband wife
A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either. Mark Driscoll