Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludacris

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Ludacris

Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.

Ludacris

I usually write songs when I'm in a car by myself and it's usually dangerous because I'm writin' and drivin' at the same time.

Lucas Grabeel

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Louise Redknapp

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

Louise Rennison

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

Louis Armstrong

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

Loretta Lynn

If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

Loretta Lynn

No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

Loretta Lynn

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Lord Byron

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

Lord Byron

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Loren Eiseley

Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.

Lord Chesterfield

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

Malcolm Gladwell

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

Malachy McCourt

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

Mahalia Jackson

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Mahalia Jackson

Blues are the songs of despair,

Mahalia Jackson

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Mahalia Jackson

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Mahalia Jackson

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Gene Wolfe

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them

Gavin MacLeod

Love exciting and new, come aboard, hes expecting you. If you listen to the lyrics its all about Jesus. Its a whole new approach to that song. I do that whenever I get into a group of believers, because it gave me - I said, wow, the Lord didnt tell me about that until how many years we were off the air. And its really about Come aboard, Jesus will take care of you. Theres a new love waiting for you. A love that will never let you down.

Gavin DeGraw

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Gavin Rossdale

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

Gavin Rossdale

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

Gail Collins

When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

Gabrielle Zevin

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Gabrielle Zevin

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

Freida Pinto

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

Frida Kahlo

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.