Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tablo

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

T Bone Burnett

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

T Bone Burnett

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

Sylvia Plath

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

Sylvia Plath

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.

Rosanne Cash

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

Rosanne Cash

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

Rosanne Cash

When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

Rosanne Cash

I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating, really fun.

Rosanne Cash

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Stephen King

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.

Stana Katic

I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

A good song is a good song whatever your age.

Sondre Lerche

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

Sondre Lerche

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Sondre Lerche

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

Sondre Lerche

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

Sondre Lerche

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

Sondre Lerche

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Taylor Momsen

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

Taylor Momsen

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

Taylor Momsen

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

Taylor Momsen

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

Taylor Momsen

I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

Taylor Lautner

I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.

Taylor Lautner

I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so .... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent.

Taylor Swift

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

Taylor Swift

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

Taylor Swift

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

Taylor Swift

I don't need to edit names out of songs and I don't need to edit details out of my songs because I've always been able to be honest with my music. That's the one place where I'm never ever going to change how I do things.

Taylor Swift

I write songs about what I go through.