Quotes about song
song done needs
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues. Ruth Brown
song writing mind
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song. Roger Miller
song couple play
I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it. Roger McGuinn
song imagination people
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
song sometimes written
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
song space trying
When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world. Roger Daltrey
song writing play
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing. Sam Shepard
song smooth
I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s. Rush Limbaugh
song apples association
In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me. Thomas Mars
song vision fantasy
I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
song dog stars
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star. W. H. Auden
song clever stupid
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
song symphony bird
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. William Christopher Handy
song retirement fall
The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. William Cowper
song cutting thinking
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good. Wayne Coyne
song sound corny
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
song titles song-titles
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
song writing
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself. Townes Van Zandt
song two zips
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
song fun writing
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist! Tove Lo
song falling-in-love fall
There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.
song fall writing
Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.
song mean catchy
A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.
song sorry crazy
Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable. Tony Orlando
song years three
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture. Tony Shalhoub
song numbers choices
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. Vaughn Monroe
song trying moments
If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life. Valerie Simpson
song jazz
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from. Van Morrison
song simple trying
What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.
song together different
I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
song trying influence
Joyous Sound evolved from a gospel influence. Actually it evolved out of sitting at a piano and just picking out a riff, a gospel type riff. It just seemed to come joyously-something about the song, about living in another place of joyous sounds. I'm not quite sure-that's one I'm trying to analyze. It just came out.
song book writing
Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
song tired
The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.