Quotes about Song

Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Chinese Proverb

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Ronald Reagan

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

Bert Mccracken

I don't want to fly on the Delta planes. I want to fly Song. They have a different attitude. I'm more than willing to shell out 5, 6, 7 bucks to eat something other than the usual.

Patrick Hall

I'll Take That as a Yes (The Hot Tub Song).

Phil Vassar

In my mind, I still don't feel that we're there, but we've got a lot of momentum. (Our success) is an honor and a prize, but I'm always thinking about what the next song is.

Luke Pettipoole

There's a song on the album called, 'Pride is a Lonely Blanket,' and that is the cornerstone of the album. Pride is what pushes you forward and pushes you backward at the same time.

Scott Terry

Listening to the CD and coming to the theater are very different experiences. I've always had the feeling that piano could be kind of a snooze if you just place one song after another. I'm the only thing to look at onstage, so it's up to me to make it as entertaining as possible.

Jim Brickman

We sign as a group; sometimes individuals may represent the group. We are very versatile and are committed to delivering the gospel through song and sign.

Tameko Smith

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Adrian Williams

We're not stuck on a certain genre. We don't listen to things the same way. That's when we might decide to make a song of it.

Matt Phillips

They are very striking with a beautiful song and the fact they are native to Pennsylvania. People like all birds, but they want to see the ones that are supposed to be here.

Jerry Feaser

Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/.

Neil Peart

Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for the sake of the song.

The Eagles

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

Joan Osborne

Listeners are treated to more than just Rowland on the hook of the song. She is featured on the bridge, as well.

Michael Mcgrath

I talked on the phone with the Trackboyz, they did a song with Nelly and with J-Kwon, and they're interested and they have really good beats.

Andy Milonakis

My voice has been raised not only in song, but to make the big world outside through me, understand something of the spirit of my beloved country.

Nellie Melba

It's not generic music. They include breaks randomly. It's a lot of little songs in one big song.

Ryan Raichilson

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground.

Lalah Hathaway

With the Hispanic culture, it seems like the first thing you do when you get up on Saturday is turn on the radio, and it's left there on that station, and that's it. It's not like, 'Oh, there's a commercial,' or 'I don't like this song,' and you're changing it all the time.

Carlos Gonzales

It takes longer for a song to be a hit in America but when it does, it hangs around a lot longer than it does in the UK. It was unbelievable. It just went on and on and on.

Craig Reid

Oh, that sounds like a song waiting to be made.

Fatboy Slim

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

Richard Marx

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

Betty Grable

It gives you a sense of school pride. This girl falls off a pyramid and she's doing the motions to the fight song. It made me proud to be her teammate.

Kristopher Smith

At the moment, Costa looks like a certainty to represent the UK but sadly we still think that there more chance of Prince William getting married in 2006, offered at 25/1, than the UK winning the Eurovision Song Contest!

Rupert Adams

I'm not trying to put down the last three months ... but to be honest, we have more goals than having a song do well at radio. We want to be the biggest band in the world.

Chris Culos

While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.

Thomas Pynchon

I wouldn't be able to give an exact time, but I'd say if you start listening to a song on the radio, you're probably going to finish that song on the same light.

Todd Simmons

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina G. Rossetti

We finished mixing the theme song about one or two weeks ago. It's one of my favorites so far. I've been playing it over and over while driving in my car.

Nobuo Uematsu

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."

Billy Corgan

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Irving Berlin

I was a song and dance man.

Mickey Carroll

If Lloyd's boot is on song it will get the Breakers out of the tight corners and we all know he can be a damaging runner.

Julian Huxley

Without a doubt that song has special meaning for me because it created so many things for me that might have never been there otherwise, ... You know there are certain songs I could never leave out of the mix, and that one is certainly at the top of the list.

Alejandro Fernandez

We have our own sound. Every single song on our album is different.

Brendan Walter

They're not pointless. I feel they have a place in my personal experience. Like, 'Lake Swimming' — I like the second verse of that song. It's just this dream world about swimming in a lake, but everyone swims in a lake. Everyone knows what that's like.

Laura Veirs

The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your phone and download. The real goal is to download it directly.

Ben Wood

As a committee we had an annoying song fundraiser where we played one song over and over until we reached $50.

Ashley Hall

I hope these songs impact people's lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people can feel something more substantive and profound, through a beautiful song, like, 'I'll Make Love to You' or 'I Said I Love You', even if for a moment, then I am happy. If they can touch that deeper place and feel a bit of what I felt when I played these songs, then I've done my job.

Kirk Whalum

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

Randy Newman

I'm embarrassed by my performance out there. I didn't practice. I should have practiced. I wasn't up for disco. I was only 7 when that song came out.

Lane Oglesby

There has to be a lot of relaxation (when performing 'OV'). If either of us is too tensed up or high strung, sometimes you can't make it through (the song) ... and it's a little bit more phonetic and faster live.

Josh Blair

When you're a brand new band, there's a tingly sort of feeling you get when you play a song that you just wrote.

Raine Maida

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

It's incredible, man, there's only like two real drums used in the whole song. It's all trash cans and pots and pans and metal crates and stuff.

Bert Mccracken

It's easy to tell when [music] is forced. Let the song write itself.

Will Pugh

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Ouida

We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, we're just a rock band doing what we do.

Ben Windsor

Gil was really good in that he would listen to the demos, and he would get the energy of just that raw first draft of the song and he was able to grow on that, still maintaining that initial energy and the direction of that song. He never tried to change a song, what it's original incarnation was, just try to improve it and get the point across more directly and more thoroughly.

Rick Burch

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

Lionel Richie

We rarely rehearse. The magic happens when we come to the studio. That's when all the guys are going to do my song and color it with their individual quality. So in the end, that's when it sounds like Green Carnation.

Kjetil Nordhus

I retired this next song in 1978.

John Prine

To survive, I blocked most of the war out. I thought I'd left it behind, but when I heard that song again, the music sent me back to the memories and I couldn't turn my back on them anymore. There was this necessity inside of me to just let things out.

Oscar Torres

[Like this one a few years ago:] Hello, John, this is Eric Clapton, ... Love to do your song.

John Hiatt

I can assign a different song to everyone who calls me. That's huge.

Michael Gallelli

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.

Shirley MacLaine

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Bobby Mcferrin

Okay. We actually only have one song left that we can play, so when we're done, you guys need to get the f*** out of here.

Ryan Key

He nailed it when he said a good song makes people think, move and feel. That's what we try to do with every song we write and record. If people are doing all three of those things, then we did our job. Making music is not a one-dimensional thing.

Claudio Sanchez

If you're really nice to the waiter, ... he'll tell you where they sat when they wrote the song.

Laura Kidder

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

Slick Rick

There really are two different ways of approaching music. There's the real pop way where it's like here's the song and here's your part and you play the same part every time. Then there's the jazz concept or approach where it's like well, here's a tune, here's the basic chord structure and melody, and you find your own part by listening to what other people are doing.

Bruce Hornsby

A lot of people don't know the song or sing it well, because they don't identify with it. They don't feel that sense of national pride.

Michael Fernandez

Our fight song was playing and our pep band wasn't even here yet. They did a good job, so I can't complain.

Gabe Norwood

I shall always equate a spontaneous song with a complete moment of happiness...

Lynne Caiafa

We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death.

Susan Moeller

Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.

Ambrose Bierce

They're just so aesthetic. Birds are the loveliest things in the natural world to me. It's the beauty of their plumage, their song and their flight. And their design is so well-engineered.

Janet Hanson

We knew exactly what we wanted. We were not in it to do something average. We were not in it to get any particular song on the radio. We were in it to do something great.

Jon Landau

I think it's a good video because it has no story and it just shows us having fun, being hams, performing the song. It's the biggest little video we've ever made.

Chris Ballew

They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing backward and forward. They work in concert. They blend together beautifully.

Don Fraser

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

We've gotten more into seamless sets of music. Two to three songs will become one long song, moving from Afro-beat to reggae and into salsa. But we keep people dancing. We've always been about giving people what they want.

Jonathan Korty

To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a collaboration because the song was written.

Adam Levine

When you look at how quickly that song grew on the charts, it was a one-listen [thing]. When you have that kind of connection out of the gate, it only gets bigger from there.

Amy Doyle

You're a song written by the hands of God.

Shakira

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

Bob Livingston

It's great when you see people's lives change and go around the country and see the impact and God's love. Sometimes it just takes that song when people are ready to give it up.

Mark Singletary

I instinctively knew all the songs from it (`Nanette'), such as `Tea for Two' and `I Want to Be Happy,' ... That's why the theme song of `The Boy Friend' is `I Could Be Happy With You.' I knew `happy' had to come in somewhere.

Sandy Wilson

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Ronnie Hawkins

In the rap world, it's very common to take a song and rearrange it and give it new lyrics. Remixes [such as this] are not strictly legal, but they're accepted.

Dana Hall

It's a groundbreaking song. There were never tracks like that in hip-hop, I should say, history before. It's all about me. It's so, like, strings and it's so freaking gangsta at the same time. It's how I wanted to come out.

Miri Ben ari

Most of them are man-bashing, downing guys. This one doesn't do that. 'Redneck Woman' is just a song about pride.

Gretchen Wilson

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

Art Garfunkel

If they start chanting something, then we'll try to match it with a song.

John Pettit

A lot of people know it better by that title. It was a love song that came from a concerto of Bach, so that's where that name came from.

Barbara Harris

In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.

Mariana Fulger

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson Mccullers

In Dead Earnest (Lee's Compost Song).

Lee Hays

A lot of people will be like, 'Man, I can't believe they're doing this song. They're gonna try to pull this song off.' That's what I like.

Bill Hawkins

It seems kind of obsessive. There has long been a niche of people who want to know how many seconds a song is going to last or how long a file will take to download. But it's interesting now that it's kind of being catapulted into the public sphere, that our governments, even, are now heeding the same kind of restlessness.

Thomas Goetz

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

He (Elvis) played the song for three hours and then made the song in one recording.

Murray Walker

"There's a perspective there and it's a human being in the crossroads, in this pinnacle, in this precarious balance of decision making. It's really about brutal honesty and about going to war with yourself and hopefully winning. In a sense, it's conceptual because every song on the record has that perspective and comes from that place of self-examination, change.

Jared Leto