Quotes about song
song tin-pan-alley bob
Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. Tom Chapin
song responsibility love-is
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement. Todd Boyd
song perfect
Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away. Tod Machover
song sadness thinking
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think. Tina Weymouth
song roger easy
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile. Tina Turner
song home writing
Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind. Tim Lambesis
song years doe
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly. Tim Finn
song people songwriters
Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.
song thinking
I think a good song is a good song is a good song.
song writing pops
Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.
song singing trying
We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing. Thurston Moore
song ideas want
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
song guitar way
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing
song fate men
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate. Sallust
song garden expression
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. Russell Page
song common-sense needs
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song. Russell Sherman
song i-like-you thinking
When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like. Russell Peters
song moving week
I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52. Russell Simmons
song hurt sky
Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words. Rumi
song heart silence
Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.
song
You’re a song, a wished-for song.
song rude bird
Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same. Rosa Luxemburg
song sadness mean
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being. Ron Pope
song book fire
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song. Roger Zelazny
song stars paint
Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars Susan Polis Schutz
song kings believe
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening? Susan Elizabeth Phillips
song block rapper
When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script. Suge Knight
song have-faith albums
I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song, Sufjan Stevens
song thinking space
I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.
song thinking grieving
I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.
song knowledge learning
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song. Ralph Waldo Emerson
song art two
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry. Simon Armitage
song language minutes
If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. Sid Caesar