Quotes about song
song feelings understanding
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding. Willie Dixon
song ignorance evil
The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues. Willie Dixon
song soul gold
It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul. Willie Dixon
song thinking play
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music. William S. Burroughs
song reflection ideas
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast. William Matthews
song silly fall
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world. Virginia Woolf
song stars important
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why. Vincente Minnelli
song mistake crazy
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess. Violante Placido
song kissing long-ago
I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts. Woody Guthrie
song miscarriage wind
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power.... Woody Guthrie
song writing
You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one. Woody Guthrie
song eye dark
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls... Woody Guthrie
song jobs gun
A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is. Woody Guthrie
song one-day littles
One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song! Woody Guthrie
song hate crazy
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Woody Guthrie
song pride color
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. Woody Guthrie
song
I don't really like to explain my songs. Yanni
song ends extremes
I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to. Yael Naim
song people way
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people. Yael Naim
song writing should
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be. Wiz Khalifa
song writing eight
I started writing songs when I was eight. Wiz Khalifa
song party sleep
No driving, no sleeping. Live it up like it's the weekend, when the DJ play the right song gonna drink, gonna party all night long Wiz Khalifa
song people trying
I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people. Wiz Khalifa
song eye light
Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes. William Watson
song empires disappear
Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. William Watson
song writing interaction-with-others
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. Will Oldham
song writing lasts
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. Will Oldham
song buzz way
When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room. Wes Borland
song character writing
All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up. Wes Borland
song real space
A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs. Will Oldham
song writing purpose
It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose. Will Oldham
song thinking want
I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me. Will Oldham
song real moving
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination. Will Oldham