Song Quotes - Page 99

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

I am made of earth, and my song made of words.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.