Song Quotes - Page 241

She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.

Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a separate scene. That would be one day. So yeah, it was about the value of time and being prepared, and not to freak out.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I've been given an opportunity to greatly impact people's lives through music. I want people to truly experience my heart, to connect with them on an emotional level and sing songs that bring meaning to their lives.

Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen both ways. I've also been trying to learn when to step away and take a break and when to keep pushing through. For me it's a delicate balance of staying inspired and staying consistent, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.

No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.