Song Quotes - page 2

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. (Maya Angelou)
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. View quote
Willie Nelson
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. View quote
Frank McCourt
You can cage the singer but not the song. View quote
Harry Belafonte
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. View quote
Robert Browning
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me. View quote
Pete Seeger
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch. View quote
Horace Walpole
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory. View quote
Alexander Smith
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. View quote
John Muir
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. (William Butler Yeats)
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. View quote
William Blake
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that. View quote
Tupac Shakur
The song of canaries; Never varies, And when they're moulting; They're pretty revolting. View quote
Ogden Nash
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. View quote
Franz Kafka
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. View quote
Martin Luther
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. View quote
Ronald Reagan
We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. View quote
Michel Patini