Song Quotes

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. (Louis Armstrong)

Silence more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

Robbie Williams

I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Lord Byron

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Germaine Greer

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. (Geddy Lee)

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Geddy Lee

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

Art Garfunkel

Fame is a bee It has a song- It has a sting- Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds.

Pablo Picasso

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Walter Savage Landor

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

Rosemary Sutcliff

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday

I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

Naomi Watts

And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.'

William Makepeace Thackeray

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song I'mboundaway And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Robert Frost

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Dolly Parton

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