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Image of Linda Hogan
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.
- Linda Hogan
Collection: Song
Image of Beck
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.
- Beck
Collection: Song
Image of Beck
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
- Beck
Collection: Song
Image of Lea Michele
Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.
- Lea Michele
Collection: Song
Image of Eubie Blake
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
- Eubie Blake
Collection: Song
Image of Eubie Blake
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?
- Eubie Blake
Collection: Song
Image of Michael J. Sullivan
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.
- Michael J. Sullivan
Collection: Song
Image of Devendra Banhart
I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.
- Devendra Banhart
Collection: Song
Image of Devendra Banhart
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.
- Devendra Banhart
Collection: Song
Image of Devendra Banhart
There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.
- Devendra Banhart
Collection: Song
Image of Christina Baker Kline
I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.
- Christina Baker Kline
Collection: Song
Image of Elliott Smith
Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is
- Elliott Smith
Collection: Song
Image of Elliott Smith
You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.
- Elliott Smith
Collection: Song
Image of Elliott Smith
I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.
- Elliott Smith
Collection: Song
Image of Alasdair Gray
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
- Alasdair Gray
Collection: Song
Image of Francis Chan
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
- Francis Chan
Collection: Song
Image of Michael W. Smith
I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make sure we don't get complacent or comfortable, and always trying to push the limit on trying to write great songs. At the end of the day it's why we do what we do.
- Michael W. Smith
Collection: Song
Image of Neil Peart
Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.
- Neil Peart
Collection: Song
Image of Ann Wilson
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
- Ann Wilson
Collection: Song
Image of Big Boi
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on.
- Big Boi
Collection: Song
Image of Sherwood Smith
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
- Sherwood Smith
Collection: Song
Image of Peter S. Beagle
song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.
- Peter S. Beagle
Collection: Song
Image of Neil Young
It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
Image of Neil Young
Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
Image of Jason Newsted
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.
- Jason Newsted
Collection: Song
Image of Jerry Stahl
Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.
- Jerry Stahl
Collection: Song
Image of Tim Wise
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.
- Tim Wise
Collection: Song
Image of Sonu Nigam
When I started‚ I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer's songs. Then 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' happened. It gave me a good break.
- Sonu Nigam
Collection: Song
Image of Anne Bronte
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
- Anne Bronte
Collection: Song
Image of Mattie Stepanek
It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do the same. Everybody has one.
- Mattie Stepanek
Collection: Song
Image of Kevin Hearne
-“Say no more,” Leif interrupted. “I understand. I will simply have to kill them all myself.” -"There he goes again. I’m telling you, Danny Elfman would love to get hold of those lines." -"Not John Williams?" -"If you’ve got some hopelessly overmatched heroes fighting evil and some Imperial types marching, John Williams is your guy. You need a song to make people reach for a box of Kleenex, talk to Randy Newman. But if you want creepy atmospherics and spine-shivering chords to back up your casual death threats, you gotta bring in Danny Elfman.
- Kevin Hearne
Collection: Song
Image of Tommy Shaw
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about
- Tommy Shaw
Collection: Song
Image of Keri Hilson
We were never meant to be baby, we just happened
- Keri Hilson
Collection: Song
Image of Rob Sheffield
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
- Rob Sheffield
Collection: Song
Image of Rob Sheffield
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
- Rob Sheffield
Collection: Song
Image of Saul Williams
I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.
- Saul Williams
Collection: Song
Image of Yuu Watase
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs
- Yuu Watase
Collection: Song
Image of Graham Nash
I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.
- Graham Nash
Collection: Song
Image of Joss Stone
If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.
- Joss Stone
Collection: Song
Image of Joss Stone
There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences, but they're great experiences 'cause then I've got some good songs so it's all good for me.
- Joss Stone
Collection: Song
Image of Roger Miller
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.
- Roger Miller
Collection: Song
Image of Mark Ronson
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.
- Mark Ronson
Collection: Song
Image of Mark Ronson
I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.
- Mark Ronson
Collection: Song
Image of Mark Ronson
I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song.
- Mark Ronson
Collection: Song
Image of Mark Ronson
I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.
- Mark Ronson
Collection: Song