Quotes about song
song mean want
To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written love songs. But I thought if I really want to make a love album that contributes, that actually means something, I've got to go deep. Jason Mraz
song hands people
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.
song encouragement laughter
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
song love-you generosity
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
song philosophy writing
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
song writing healing
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
song home feelings
I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
song yoga walking-meditation
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
song writing thinking
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
song sacred next
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.
song wind bird
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
song pushing different
When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different. Hillary Scott
song two people
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. Hilary Rosen
song taken granted
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. Herbert Croly
song speech use
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song. Herbert Read
song calling hours
What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours? F. Scott Fitzgerald
song nice boys
What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.
song voice deathless
that voice was a deathless song.
song thinking hands
His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.
song writing firsts
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. Evan Dando
song writing minutes
The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
song memories book
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
song writing stories
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies. Eugene Hutz
song masters critics
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? Irwin Shaw
song summertime cotton
Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high. Ira Gershwin
song music-is without-music
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
song stars land
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. Jack London
song reading writing
I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit. Jack Johnson
song simple people
Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.
song thinking people
The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.
song feel-better thinking
What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.
song hands guitar
I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.
song writing different
The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish writing all the songs for an album, once I actually record them, that whole process is usually easy and enjoyable. The part where I feel the most vulnerable is when it's all finished, I can make no more changes, I've turned it in, and there's no going back. All of a sudden I hear the songs in a different way; that's when I feel vulnerable.