Quotes about song
song pain garden
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? Anne Rice
song blessed tunnels
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat
song pain painful
I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
song strong prayer
I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment. Anita Diament
song writing light
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
song believe voice
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased. Andrew Solomon
song drama flower
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. Andre Maurois
song gratitude cities
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
song thinking hurricanes
I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert. Andy Kindler
song good-luck winning
I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started. Andy Murray
song real care
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about. Anthony Kiedis
song tiny harder
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements. Alicia Keys
song couple talking
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.
song writing play
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
song joy
Only joy comes from song.
song arrangements depends
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
song inspiration done
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
song eye play
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
song falling-in-love stars
Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart. Alice Hoffman
song light sight
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light. Alice Cary
song rocks soul
Johnny [Depp] got this rock 'n' roll old soul to him. If I say a song, he goes, 'Oh yeah. I know that song.' A song he shouldn't know, a song that's not his generation at all. So he might as well have been there. Alice Cooper
song character mean
I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.
song mind flash
It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
song writing thinking
I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
song four sentimental
If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
song kids voice
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me. Anne Lamott
song living-my-life mark
A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs. Amy Winehouse
song writing bored
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
song writing trying
I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.
song waiting situation
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
song white zeppelins
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
song writing feel-better
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
song girlfriend writing
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.