Quotes about song
song drinking america
Don't start drinking before the fifth song. Terry Wogan
song prayer believe
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. Terry Tempest Williams
song singers remember
No one remembers the singer. The song remains. Terry Pratchett
song father singing
When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Terry Pratchett
song folks folk-songs
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. Terry Pratchett
song mean enemy
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode. Terry Pratchett
song real nice
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will. Terry Pratchett
song people watches
They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie. Terry Gilliam
song favorites-things my-favorite
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things. Terry Gross
song evil may
Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. Terry Eagleton
song writing artist
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. Terri Clark
song be-who-you-are reaching
That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are. Terri Clark
song soul sirens
History is the siren song of the soul. Terence McKenna
song ayahuasca information-processing
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular. Terence McKenna
song animal psychics
At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst. Terence McKenna
song mean who-i-am
I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am. Teddy Pendergrass
song men thinking
I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song. Teddy Pendergrass
song real sacrifice
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer. Teena Marie
song thinking blessing
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know. Teena Marie
song party guitar
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him. Teena Marie
song self englishmen
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. Teddy Thompson
song favourite subjects
The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject. Teddy Thompson
song native-american great-day
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Tecumseh
song love-you native-american
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide Tecumseh
song rocks rock-and-roll
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By... Randall Jarrell
song spring autumn
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
song acoustics different
Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage. Shania Twain
song play my-favorite
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits. Shania Twain
song opinion share
I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them. Shania Twain
song writing journey
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs. Shania Twain
song hurt ex-boyfriend
I get so mad about ex-boyfriends, but if a boy hurts me, I don't write a song about it. They don't deserve it! Selena
song fun thinking
I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making music. I love inspiring people. I love making great songs that are just really fun. But that's all it usually is for me. I love touring and singing great songs. I don't think I'll ever win a Grammy one day, and I'm totally fine with that. I do work really hard when it comes to acting and I want to do that for a long time. Selena Gomez
song powerful done
One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is. Selena Gomez