Quotes about song
song taken piano
I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't. Connie Francis
song grandmother italian
I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. Connie Francis
song dog black
I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog. Condoleezza Rice
song voice imagine
They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised. Coco Lee
song writing people
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people. Colbie Caillat
song careers support
Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first; I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career. Colbie Caillat
song writing feelings
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song. Colbie Caillat
song divorce writing
What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people. Colbie Caillat
song writing thinking
Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about. Colbie Caillat
song writing guitar
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven. Colbie Caillat
song writing berlin
I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits. Cole Porter
song inspiration writing
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow. Cole Porter
song community dublin
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. Colin Farrell
song night light
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
song heart blue
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
song brother years
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of her, and of his brother, and of God; while she dragged through the years, sullen and bitter, the stain of silence marking her, coming in the end to ridicule as a soured spinster who had been kissed once in her life and could not forget it. Daphne du Maurier
song trying excitement
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience. Dan Reynolds
song honesty mean
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users. Dan Farmer
song giving trying
I always try to give my songs as gifts. Dan Fogelberg
song pain sorrow
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes. Dan Fogelberg
song simple survival
Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand. Dan Fogelberg
song rejection stories
But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits. Cynthia Weil
song real writing
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. Cynthia Weil
song stars years
Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending. Compay Segundo
song play albums
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play. Dar Williams
song play people
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play. Dar Williams
song writing people
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. Dar Williams
song writing impact
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact. Dar Williams
song writing way
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. Dar Williams
song character giving
I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, sometimes a certain song will help me feel emotions that evoke tears. Danielle Panabaker
song tears remember
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. Danielle Steel
song mistake flower
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart? Cornelia Funke
song night bird
In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun. Cormac McCarthy