Song Quotes - page 4

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. (Pete Hamill)
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way. View quote
Phil Lesh
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out. View quote
Robert Goulet
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. View quote
Slick Rick
I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. View quote
Tom Glazer
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. View quote
Tom Glazer
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. View quote
Tommy Shaw
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. View quote
Vaughn Monroe
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. (Vince Neil)
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. View quote
Zoltan Kodaly
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil - all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides." View quote
Rachel Carson
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. View quote
Rachel Carson
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song. View quote
Charles Hartshorne
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz” but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner” so far as music is concerned. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both. View quote
Kylie Minogue
I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus." View quote
John Lennon
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. View quote
Frederick William Faber
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. (Henry David Thoreau)
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. View quote
Richard Wilbur
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? View quote
James Frey
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning. View quote
S. M. Stirling
In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land. View quote
Miriam Makeba