Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Oldham

When I listen to them, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that when you're writing the song and recording the song, you're already sending a message to the future listener, whoever and wherever and whenever that will be.

Will Oldham

The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.

Will Oldham

I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song.

Walter Cronkite

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

Virginia Woolf

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

William Bell

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

William Blake

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

William Blake

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

Wayne Wonder

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

Wayne Wonder

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

Wallace Stegner

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

Sammy Cahn

I don't write songs, songs write me.

Sammy Cahn

If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

Sammy Cahn

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

Salman Rushdie

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Salman Rushdie

My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

Salman Rushdie

Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

Ryan Ross

You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

Ryan Tedder

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Ryan Tedder

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

Ryan Tedder

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

Ryan Tedder

Im not interested in fad songs.

Ryan Tedder

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

Ryan Tedder

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

Rudolf Steiner

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

Wanda Jackson

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Joseph Bruchac

We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

Joss Whedon

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

Joss Whedon

Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!

Kim Mitchell

Over to the jukebox I staggered for a love song to scatter my body before her.

Kim Kardashian

I really like the song "Only One" [ Kanye West with Paul McCartney].

Kevin James

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

Kendrick Lamar

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.