Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCartney

Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

Patty Griffin

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Patty Griffin

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Patton Oswalt

There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

Peter Garrett

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Paul Valery

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Paul Taylor

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

Paul Westerberg

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

Paul Westerberg

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

Paul Westerberg

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

Paul Westerberg

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

Paul Westerberg

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

Paul Weyrich

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Mel Brooks

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Mel Brooks

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

Mary Oliver

from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.

Mary Doria Russell

...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Marty Robbins

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Marty Robbins

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Marty Stuart

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

Mark Salling

Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

Pope John Paul II

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Pink

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

Pink

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people