Quotes about song
song stuff next
I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song. John Prine
song couple sleep
Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez, I'll never forget that. And went back to sleep, and it was gone. You'll hear something years later that another songwriter that you respect writes, and you go, jeez, I think that was the remnants of that song that got sent to me.
song rocks rock-and-roll
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
song morning real
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.
song men long
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more. John Quincy Adams
song deny shagging
All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it John Peel
song time blessed
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending. John Milton
song sweet fate
In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
song thee wells
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
song soul mazes
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
song sweet bird
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
song nests larks
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
song writing mattresses
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. Noel Redding
song writing thinking
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think. Noel Gallagher
song dog character
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
song kids fate
The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.
song writing play
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
song people band
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
song sex writing
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
song past rocks
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.
song pursue great-ones
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
song moving guitar
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
song people deny
I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
song play
Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
song white oasis
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts.
song writing lennon
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
song jobs singing
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela. Nina Simone
song writing play
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
song mean thinking
I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. Noah Baumbach
song thinking color
Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.
song queens epic
I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. Nina Arianda
song ufo
I wrote many songs about UFOs. Nina Hagen
song writing thinking
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to. Mitch Albom