Woody has always been a reference point for me, as well a source of inspiration along the way. I was brought up around his music at a pretty early age, ... The reference in the song relates more to the way my own children have become fans, I guess (laughs). If there was no Highway 61, we may not have had Bob Dylan or Leadbelly .
Jay Farrar
The music that we used couldn't be (sped up or slowed down) and the song had to be one that was currently a part of the show's countdown. Even the number of guys that were allowed to dance onstage was scaled down - eight guys actually danced, but 19 traveled.
Shepiro Hardemon
One guy whose phone was programmed for the theme song from 'The Sting' was getting calls every five minutes. We couldn't figure out which phone it was to turn it off.
Bruce Patterson
I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy. .
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
From the time the idea of the song came to me it's been my vision that the song help people to see this march as more than just a march but a movement.
Alan Curtis Green
We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.
Golf Brooks
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
Cameron Crowe
Five to 10 years from now, nearly every recorded song will be stored in digital form on servers, and delivered on demand via wired and wireless Internet to homes, offices, cars and portable devices.
Aram Sinnreich
I wanted a record with no ballads. I wanted there to be no breaks, with one song segueing into the next -- just like in a disco.
Singer Madonna
I build the songs up from scratch. Sometimes I start off with just a click, then add a drum beat, bass line and guitar sounds. When I've got the groove going, I'll eventually go into the song and sing it over the top.
Thomas Dolby
My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.
Brian Setzer
It's been the same song, same verse all year long we don't hit the ball when we need too. We just didn't do it. We had the opportunities with runners in scoring position but we don't get it done. We are going get to work tomorrow. We are going to get after it and we aren't going to quit.
Frank Chumbley
As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.
Bobby Hatfield
I learned the basics at a very young age. If it's a sad song, act sad.
T.o. Sterrett
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Don Mclean
We used to be invited on stage with our father's band to sing that song when we were children.
Henry Garza
That's actually about my dad's ex-wife believe it or not!. Actually a lot of the stuff that's in that song actually happened, like my laundry being thrown out, and stuff like that. So that was inspired by my dad's ex-wife.
Chris Barron
The song does not glorify John Walker Lindh.
Danny Goldberg
You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.
Charles Kingsley
It is our swan song, and (winning) kind of symbolizes the closure at the end, and I miss it already. I'm gonna go bawl now.
Ray Romano
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
Oh sure, I can do that, no problem. Gain 30 pounds, sing a song, ride a horse, jump off a building, no worries.
Ashley Judd
Since the war started, I was doing that song every night onstage and couldn't get it out of my head. I felt like I needed to record it, but I almost left it off the record. I thought, 'Is this hitting people over the head too much?' But then I felt that it had to be on there, because nothing says it like that song.
Buddy Miller
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
John Davidson
Wall Street continued to question the efficacy of Song because the company never released any financials. People felt that Song was a money-loser.
Julius Maldutis
We are not to comprehend;the secret of roses, but maybeswimming in the incantation of roses.Or may be looking forthe song of truthbetween the morning glory,and the century.
Sohrab Sepehri
[But the song isn't a tribute to Johnny Cash's musical talent.] I was influenced by Johnny as an individual, ... He wasn't a staple in my musical existence. It was his awesome personality.
Shelby Lynne
The idea that you can listen to all the music you want, see the title of the song and the artist, is a great benefit. It's a wonderful thing to not necessarily have to listen to the commercials or banter if that's not what you're into.
Chuck Taylor
It's a breath of different air because creative input didn't come from members of Vinyl. The Rondo Brothers came in and just mutated a bunch of our songs. They affected it with dub, tempo, pulled instruments in and out of the mix, sliced and diced, reassembled, and in some cases, giving the song an entirely different feel.
Geoff Vaughan
What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
Graham Nash
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert Motherwell
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
Glen Campbell
The timing is not right for us to record a song about the future when so many people have lost their lives. We will proceed in a few months, but right now it's about helping those who are dealing with the tsunami disaster and that should honestly be the focus.
Jermaine Dupri
Every song is different. Every song comes in a different way. Some songs will come in a day and some will take two years to write.
Jenny Phillips
Thank you to Joe Henry and Doug Johnson for writing an amazing song. We were so humbled to be the ones to have done it.
Gary Levox
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year!
Michael Bruce
We took a song that we knew and we got creative with it.
Gina Depaoli
I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song.
Ike Turner
We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, ... And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].
Nick Hexum
It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam Phillips didn't like his singing, but a secretary did and kept his phone number. Sam Phillips said one day he needed a white kid who could sing black, and she had Elvis' number in her drawer.
Stan Perkins
Our only rule was that everything had to come from before we signed our first record deal. The Blondie song ('Hanging on the Telephone') is the most modern one on there. Most of it ended up being from between 1970 and 1973.
Joe Elliott
We just really want to get in because we know if we get to do that song (Shackles), we have a really good chance.
Amy Williams
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
Ric Ocasek
I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.
Jeff Ament
We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.
Daniel Adair
People forget to recognize and remember the wives. So that's what my goal is for this song: to support the spouse and everything she goes through as well. We just wanted to honor them and to recognize them.
April Taylor
Every time he sings this song, he's digging this woman right out of the ground and dancing with her.
Keith Dixon
It is not really singing to me. It is just like acting and being in a play. There is a journey in a song.
Jacqueline Mckenzie
But, O my soul, hear the song of the sailors.
Stephane Mallarme
They hadn't even started writing it, but it didn't matter; I knew that anything that had that song in it would be beautiful.
Mary Martin
So many things had to be in place and had to happen for this song to do what it did. It boggles the mind.
Stan Perkins
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
Nanci Griffith
We sort of have a sub goal to write the longest song possible.
John Ernst
If we had a producer we were working with, then we're pretty flexible. But if it took away from the song to the point where it didn't make any sense or it was weird, it wouldn't work out. We'd just be like, 'Hey, what about this new song we got? Check this out.' We'd work with them some way.
Scott Higgins
I think I got more comfortable singing because I knew the song. It just kinda flowed.
Sarah Frazier
Personally speaking, I think that being a folk song writer, which I am, comes with a responsibility to reflect on the social times you are living in, ... That's just what I did in my latest release, Hearts in Mind.
Nanci Griffith
The little children that their favorite song is Taps.
John Guare
So, I'm writing a little song about how great this family is.
Preston Sharp
When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.
William Fonville
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
Alex Chilton
[The injury occurred Sunday night early in his seven-song set during] American Idols Live! ... when he pulled the left foot back to leap from one of the risers, it tripped him up. The break was halfway between his pinky toe and heel.
Nancy Downes
Deejays weren't crazy about that song. But a week later they called us and said we have a No. 1 hit.
Harold Cowart
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all - By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall (The Liberty Song).
John Dickinson
She is probably the best mezzo-soprano I've ever had in my studio. She has an artistry that is extremely unusual. She can interpret a song far beyond her years.
Bill Bauer
We liked it. Everything felt right. We wrote our first song in 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes.
Joe Abraham
Our material is all so recognizable that I think the fans are going to love it. One song after another is recognizable. The tour has been going really, really good so far. There's been very little drama on the tour because all the bands get along really well.
Steve Riley
A song is the most intangible thing in the world.
Jimmie Davis
At the moment, Costa looks like a certainty to represent the UK but sadly we still think that there is more chance of rain every day at Wimbledon, offered at 28/1, than the UK winning the Eurovision Song Contest!
Rupert Adams
I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.
Paul Taylor
Despite the fact that I absolutely cannot stand that song, you've totally won me over.
Sass Jordan
She had the voice of an angel, kind of a cross between Barbara Streisand and Karen Carpenter. She could play any song she heard.
Barbara Christian
We performed again in Chicago recently and heard what we thought was an echo. It turned out there was another woman from Mongolia who was singing a long song right back to Zola at that moment. It electrified the hall.
Laura Freid
It's not my song any more. It's very much the audience's song, so if I'm feeling generous I'll wheel it out one night.
David Gray
Selling one song at a time is like selling just one chapter of a book.
Bill Nguyen
He definitely got some fire underneath his belt. He's not just a one-song wonder either. I heard some of the next couple records and it's real hard.
Juelz Santana
Some people don't want to leave then. They keep asking me to play one more song.
Gerald Pruitt
I personally do not see this as the best song we could have to represent the entire commonwealth.
Steve Landes
Our signature - it's not publicized in our program but kind of our standing-ovation song - is a song called Irish Blessing . I think with our voices we are actually looking to bless people's lives.
Jim Doolittle
I go out and look at how the world impacts a whole community of birds _ basically, how do things we do as humans impact migratory song birds.
Greg Keller
It's expensive to buy the CD to begin with and if you can't use the song that you want to use, there's just no reason to have it.
Ron Keller
They're about situations I've gone through being in a relationship. You won't hear me write a song about walking on a beach because that isn't what my life has been about. I write songs about what I know and what I know is the ups and downs of relationships. What I know about is what it feels like to hurt and be hurt. What I know about is love.
Keith Sweat
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans Rogers
It's kind of a protest song. My objective is to make sense of foreign policy decisions taken by the current Bush administration and showing how they resemble solipsistic bullying.
Colin Meloy
This song is the last song we're playing in America, but we'll be back.
Brandon Flowers
That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't even remember the lyric or the tune.
Martin Charnin
You've waited this long, you can definitely sing the song.
Yolanda Adams
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don Mclean
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thing my family had been through. She had cancer and fought it very bravely for seven years. She shouldn't have made it two, really, with the type of cancer she had. I wanted to cut that song for what it said.
Brad Paisley
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
Kelly Rowland
That was the hardest thing, to find a song to cut down to a minute.
Donald Buchanan
Hey dudes ... this is a love song.
Jenny Lewis
The lyrics are so straightforward. I can't believe people misinterpret that song. I've heard the song is conceited. Everybody has a mind that works in a different way, but I thought it was very clear.
Tara Slone
I'd say my most requested song is Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. But it used to be Town Without Pity until we quit playing Gene Pitney.
Vance Phillips
I blindfolded my girlfriend at night and led her into the woods, where I had a blanket, rose petals, champagne and candles. I played a song I wrote for her, and the rest of the night turned out great.
Ben Curtis
My father and I met Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary in 1933. We came there looking for the roots of American black song, and we certainly found them with Lead Belly.
Alan Lomax
Our goal is for every song to have a new arrangement of instruments.
Mike Irish
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
Graham Nash
Joss didn't even think he could play the piano, then he would sit down and lay waste to every song around him and it's like 'I'm not crying...'
James Marsters
We haven't met a single soul who's ever heard that song. He doesn't know where he heard it - he can't remember.
Alan Doyle
We're not going to play that song. It doesn't make sense.
George King
I felt confident we could do the story of the band without scenes where people suddenly break into song.
Des Mcanuff
A guy who's playing for the beauty of the song, not his own ego. These are incredible players.
Shelby Lynne
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.
Sam Walter Foss
Every song is different, ... If they come fast that's wonderful. But if they don't, that's OK, too. You just have to be patient and do whatever is required to write the song as good as possible and as true as possible.
Allen Shamblin
We were joking the other day about which fight song we should sing when we win. I guess both right now.
David Mcauliffe
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
John Denver
It's always fun to play a lot of the more aggressive tracks, like the title track '10,000 Fists,'Ÿ ... It's just a high energy song and it's aggressive and there's some really cool double bass parts going on and an aggressive riff. That's gonna be a good live song because it definitely gets the blood flowing.
Dan Donegan
If you assume that this was his final budget, it was an almost near-perfect swan song.
Goolam Ballim
I never get tired of that song. I can do it 50 times a day, and still have fun with it.
Chuck Leavell
If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.
Hank Williams
I think this song took on a life of its own. It became almost bigger than we are, honestly. We were just the voice behind it.
Jay Demarcus
I think we all knew it was the kind of song that had a message people could relate to. Everybody, at any given point in their life, is going through something. That's life. Always a new challenge. As soon as we think we've got the one thing down, a roof caves in. You just never know what's going to happen.
Matt Hammitt
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.
Nelson Eddy
Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger.
Brandon Flowers
All music if folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
For me, that is my ... greatest accomplishment ... getting an original song to break through and connect with people, ... And I am really, really proud of that.
Marty Casey
It is a progression overall, a moving from say a (short) rock song to an eight-minute epic, just basically not creating a wall where you can only do one thing.
Claudio Sanchez
I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron
The energy from the kids is so immediate and so sincere. Play a song for them, and if they're into it, they're jumping up and down. They're so happy they're screaming for the song. Playing in cover bands, it takes a couple hours for everyone to get drunk enough to get into it and respond.
Laurie Berkner
Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story.
Hilary Rosen
This is like some game we're playing. To us, this is not a game. I'm not doing it on a song and a prayer.
Mike Plant
If one person knows the song, we can pull it off, and it's not a matter of rehearsing it over and over again.
Scott Gilbert
It's similar to that kind of song, very pro-soldier, 'anti-enemy,' so to speak. Pretty powerful worlds.
Chris Curtice
I knew that it was special. That feeling was in the air, maybe it was just in our heads. From the first song, the crowd just went ape shit.
Todd Phillips
I like the Iowa fight song so much you just want to sing it with all the Iowa people. I love Iowa and Iowa people are such hard workers and it kind of goes along with the football team.
Colleen Schreier
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
Franz Kafka
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Joe Hickey
He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.
Bill Durham
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.
Naomi Watts
The song sounds like it was recorded inside 'Animal House.'
Dave Marsh
It says the right things. When we do the song live, people stand up and sing along by the first chorus.
Gene Johnson
Just like with any music, you listen to a song and it brings back memories. For me, [Buffett] brings me back to a simpler part of my life.
Tony Benshoof
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Alan Lomax
The song is about leaving your home, your friends, your family, for the unknown. And about two different kinds of leaving. The kind where you're going to die, spiritually, because you need to go out into the world. Or the kind of dying where, if you don't leave, they're going to kill you.
Brad Manosevitz
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
Francis Scott Key
People were ready for that in-your-face style strong female song on the radio.
Gretchen Wilson
We wanted to make sure that the soundtrack is as powerful as the boxers' punches. Each song gets your heart pounding and makes you want to move faster, dig deeper and punch harder.
Steve Schnur
[Franklin has long been a Wonder fan. Working on the song] Why, ... very Stevie-ish ... I flew to Los Angeles to let him hear it. He liked it and wanted to be on it.
Kirk Franklin
This album is the same balance we've always had with melodic, riff-based rock songs, but we brought in the programming aspect on this one. We worked with a string quartet on two different songs. We always approach each song individually, try to make the most of each song and bring it to life as much as possible.
Dean Roland
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song. / Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
John Masefield
I try in sessions to let listeners into the musician's life: Where does this song come from and what makes this artist tick. So then when they listen to that artist again later, it's a more personal experience. There's a relationship there.
John Ziegler
A good song is worth hearing more than once. People that study communications say you have to repeat your message. People never get it the first time.
Tony Cribb
It's our nation's song, it's a song that is deeply rooted in America's heritage. I think it is really important that people know it.
Julie Bruhn
ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.
Chuck Klosterman
I think it's just a coincidence that we're Ringside and the theme of the video is a boxing thing, ... It's more a metaphor for what the song is about.
Balthazar Getty
Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.
James Elliott
By that time, I felt there was no future in the lamb business. I decided to donate the lamb. It would be our swan song.
John Jamison
And it was around in the 1960s and 1970s as a recreational drug, too. The song 'Mother's Little Helper' by the Rolling Stones is about methamphetamine.
Bruce Freeman
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
Matthew Prior
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
Bob Walker
[Just last week, at an H&M/Interview party for his film] Romeo and Juliet, ... It's going to be major. It's just the hottest Madonna song.
David Lachapelle
The national anthem is kind of a hard song to sing sometimes, and God gave me the strength to put it together.
Darryl Reed
They want a Beatles song, people want us to sing, they want me to sing?
Cherie Blair
The third cut of it is so horrendous, ... I thought I couldn't ignore her any longer. I just sat there, agape. It was a song about how stupid her boyfriend is, and how she liked him because he is stupid. I couldn't believe .
Robert Christgau
We figured we knew just about every song you could know in Newfoundland and ... there's probably six on this record that we'd never heard before.
Alan Doyle
It's kind of a chicken-and-egg type thing, whether the song made the town like it is, or whether the town was like it is when the song came out.
Neal Brown
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, ... Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.
Chubby Checker
I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.
Jason Aldean
In one part of our machine, we used 100 steps just to play the Purdue fight song because we basically created a fully working mechanical player piano. To win the competition is great, but it means so much also to win the People's Choice award because that means we entertained people, too.
Shawn Jordan
I think we should stay where we are. This year has really proven that when you have the right song, everything else falls into place.
Shane Filan
This is Greenspan's last hurrah, the swan song for the big guy.
Richard Yamarone
What Madonna did with that song was to make the visual sell of the song maybe even more important than the song itself. And that was a revolution that has lasted for 20 years and counting.
Mark Harris
I will be joining the campaign with a song in my heart, with a spring in my step.
Charles Kennedy
Ray hooked us up with that. The song is called 'Whole Lot of Nada,' and we're going to play it that night. We're in the works of shopping it around to some people for someone to sing it.
Robert Vega
We're very song-driven, ... Although our tastes are different, our aesthetics work. We just appreciate a good song. We're a democratic operation.
Tara Slone
'Good Ride Cowboy,' Garth's tribute to Chris LeDoux, is the song we've chosen to be the first because it symbolizes the project, which is about love and honesty. It's up-beat, fun, sincere and everything you want music to be.
Charlie Anderson
Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.
Chris Hillman
You know the song: 'When Irish eyes are smiling, all the world seems bright and gay. Well, not on Fifth Avenue.
Brendan Fay
[After Brooks recorded his song,] The Dance, ... I couldn't be happier if Elvis had come back to do it.
Tony Arata
It made me aware as a citizen, these aren't numbers you hear about when they say 13 people are killed. You sort of become desensitized, but these are someone's moms, dads, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. This song is showing them appreciation and not taking things for granted.
Derek Clark
That song and that group said so much about what was going on in Los Angeles at that time. We were going through this terrible crack epidemic that devastated so many people, including some of my own family. It was music that was saying something about the community, about that experience. I knew it was important.
Tracey Salisbury
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