Quotes about song
song book school
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually think there might be love around, we start laughing and pretending and hiding from it. Caroline B. Cooney
song popular-song
Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more? Carole King
song found-you soul
When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
song home people
One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
song believe thinking
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music Carlos Ruiz Zafon
song emotional space
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. Camille Paglia
song thinking artist
It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad. Caitlin Moran
song men mad
There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time. Bryan Batt
song queens feelings
Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears. Casey Abrams
song dog would-be
If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.
song rocks shoes
I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.
song messages used
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit. Casey Kasem
song used used-to-be
Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
song winter singing
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. Charles Kuralt
song media style
Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. Ai Weiwei
song thinking views
It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing. Bob Mould
song kids writing
I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. Bo Bice
song guy want
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
song art long
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. Bliss Carman
song home thinking
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?' Blake Shelton
song kings pirate
What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Bo Burnham
song dirty kids
I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
song art self
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
song mean thinking
I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something. Billy Eckstine
song growing-up rap
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. Billy Idol
song play reeds
ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie". Billy Gibbons
song driven process
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
song believe years
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap. Billy Joel
song couple writing
I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
song stars writing
I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."
song kids player
I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
song hustle-and-bustle needs
I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
song writing reason
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.