Quotes about song
song people warts
My songs grow on people - like warts. Glenn Frey
song heart writing
I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound. Gerry Beckley
song rest-in-peace condolences
I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace... Gerry Beckley
song writing singing
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac! Gerry Rafferty
song writing play
Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays. Gerry Mulligan
song thinking people
I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs. Harry Connick, Jr.
song thinking take-me
I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to. Harry Caray
song sweet jesus
When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar. Harry Chapin
song eye men
She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away. Harry Chapin
song vices vice-versa
If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa. Harry Connick, Jr.
song singers actors
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. Harry Connick, Jr.
song musician jazz
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Harry Connick, Jr.
song battle slappers
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along. Gwendolyn Brooks
song life-changing writing
I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing. Gwen Stefani
song heart writing
I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar. Gwen Stefani
song writing successful
I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again." Gwen Stefani
song people firsts
I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' Gwen Stefani
song writing artistic
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. Gwen Stefani
song eye people
It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. Gwen Stefani
song writing naked
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked. Gwen Stefani
song attitude mean
I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song. Gwen Stefani
song mean writing
When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on. Gwen Stefani
song real guitar
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time Gregg Allman
song jobs clubs
You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt. Gregg Allman
song tired people
I got tired of playing other people's songs. Gregg Allman
song rocks laughing
I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God. Gregg Allman
song writing people
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. Gregg Allman
song religious jesus
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside. Gram Parsons
song night play
I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night. Grant-Lee Phillips
songs trying
I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap. Mystikal
song prayer pain
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart. Jack Kornfield
song fundamentals levels
Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology. J. I. Packer
songs
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything. Kacey Musgraves