Top song Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Lisa Marie Presley
I saw a Velveeta commercial and it was playing, I think 'Burning Love.' He [Michael Jackson] had approved it - that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin.
- Lisa Marie Presley
Collection: Song
Image of David Nicholls
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.
- David Nicholls
Collection: Song
Image of Edward Thomas
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.
- Edward Thomas
Collection: Song
Image of Jack Black
Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.
- Jack Black
Collection: Song
Image of Meg Ryan
Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.
- Meg Ryan
Collection: Song
Image of Lisa Ann Sandell
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
- Lisa Ann Sandell
Collection: Song
Image of Lisa Ann Sandell
Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.
- Lisa Ann Sandell
Collection: Song
Image of Mike Shinoda
I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.
- Mike Shinoda
Collection: Song
Image of Seal
My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.
- Seal
Collection: Song
Image of Paul Simon
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
- Paul Simon
Collection: Song
Image of George Benson
The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.
- George Benson
Collection: Song
Image of George Benson
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
- George Benson
Collection: Song
Image of Andy Partridge
For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.
- Andy Partridge
Collection: Song
Image of Robert W. Service
It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It's a different song when everything's wrong, When you're feeling infernally mortal; When it's ten against one, and hope there is none, Buck up, little soldier, and chortle!
- Robert W. Service
Collection: Song
Image of Kathryn Minshew
Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.
- Kathryn Minshew
Collection: Song
Image of Karen White
Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
- Karen White
Collection: Song
Image of Rosemary Sutcliff
I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.
- Rosemary Sutcliff
Collection: Song
Image of M. Ward
It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
- M. Ward
Collection: Song
Image of M. Ward
The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.
- M. Ward
Collection: Song
Image of M. Ward
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?
- M. Ward
Collection: Song
Image of M. Ward
When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
- M. Ward
Collection: Song
Image of M. Ward
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
- M. Ward
Collection: Song
Image of Dean Young
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
- Dean Young
Collection: Song
Image of Tad Williams
Every man is the hero of his own song.
- Tad Williams
Collection: Song
Image of Anne Sweeney
My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."
- Anne Sweeney
Collection: Song
Image of Helen Steiner Rice
Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.
- Helen Steiner Rice
Collection: Song
Image of Isaac Rosenberg
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough
- Isaac Rosenberg
Collection: Song
Image of Tecumseh
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
- Tecumseh
Collection: Song
Image of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Collection: Song
Image of Ice T
You can't just sing the song and live another life.
- Ice T
Collection: Song
Image of Michael Ian Black
So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Song
Image of Paul Muldoon
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time
- Paul Muldoon
Collection: Song
Image of Joey Ramone
I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.
- Joey Ramone
Collection: Song
Image of Andy Milonakis
There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
- Andy Milonakis
Collection: Song
Image of Conor Oberst
I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
- Conor Oberst
Collection: Song
Image of Conor Oberst
All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band. I mean, really, in many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio, we build the songs that way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band was the exact opposite, where everybody knows what they are gonna be playing on the song and there's sort of a general stylistic approach, and then it's just plug in and play.
- Conor Oberst
Collection: Song
Image of Conor Oberst
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"
- Conor Oberst
Collection: Song
Image of Adam Young
In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel." "If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am." (Adam R. Young, 2006)
- Adam Young
Collection: Song
Image of Michael O'Brien
Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.
- Michael O'Brien
Collection: Song
Image of Cole Porter
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
- Cole Porter
Collection: Song
Image of Cole Porter
I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
- Cole Porter
Collection: Song
Image of Adam Yauch
I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.
- Adam Yauch
Collection: Song
Image of Jennifer Flackett
All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.
- Jennifer Flackett
Collection: Song
Image of Pat Boone
When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit
- Pat Boone
Collection: Song
Image of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Collection: Song
Image of Susan Polis Schutz
Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
- Susan Polis Schutz
Collection: Song
Image of Prince
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
- Prince
Collection: Song
Image of Nick Jonas
I really try to be aware of the purpose of each song. There are songs on my record that I want people to have sex to, and songs people can listen to when they're pissed off.
- Nick Jonas
Collection: Song