Quotes about song
song nature orchids
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves. Gretel Ehrlich
song sick listening
I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while. Grimes
song shiver
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
song might way
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too. Gil Scott-Heron
song thinking names
I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.
song people feelings
I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away.
song voice tone
My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
song names best-day-ever
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is. Haley Reinhart
song trying hollywood
Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs. Gregory Harrison
song albums compromise
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
song play guitar
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
song fun people
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world. Greil Marcus
song moving ideas
What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.
song writing people
Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.
song whales answers
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song. Gregory Colbert
song lying first-love
None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough. Gregory David Roberts
song men perspective
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. Holly Near
song voice feet
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ...
song time
Time has passed through me and become a song.
song men world
You can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world 'round.
song thinking expression
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
song concerts audience
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
song years want
I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la. Holly Valance
song differences emotion
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference. Hollie Cavanagh
song challenges want
I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.
song morning writing
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies. Iggy Pop
song writing long
And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.
song identity determined
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity. Ian Anderson
song children objectivity
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
song sunshine dark
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland
song simple thinking
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. Hugh Evans
song thinking new-experiences
The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since. Hugh Dancy
song jealous thinking
I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time. Howlin' Wolf