Song Quotes - page 3

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times. (Augusten Burroughs)
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing. View quote
Sam Shepard
That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song. View quote
Harlan Coben
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. View quote
Sean O`Casey
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it. View quote
Barry Gibb
No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it. View quote
Bruno Mars
they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. View quote
Amy Bloom
You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. View quote
L.J. Smith
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song. View quote
Leah LaBelle
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. View quote
Travis Barker
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. (Barry Mann)
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. View quote
Barry McGuire
I try to tell a story musically in a song. View quote
Barry White
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. View quote
David Antin
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. View quote
Dennis Brown
Every song is like a painting. View quote
Dick Dale
So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms. View quote
Duncan Sheik
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know. View quote
George Thorogood
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. View quote
Graham Nash
I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. (Kathy Valentine)
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. View quote
Mel Torme
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip! View quote
Nancy Sinatra
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. View quote
Pete Hamill
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