Song Quotes - page 5

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough. (Isaac Rosenberg)
The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song. View quote
Michael Moore
O thrush, your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung, Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear Love and I were young. View quote
William Morris
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return. View quote
Gilles Deleuze
For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me. View quote
Gloria Estefan
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. View quote
Mark Knopfler
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time – and then you want out of that movie. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. (Nick Cave)
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song. View quote
Joe Satriani
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong. View quote
Joe Satriani
I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05. View quote
Billy Joel
Sing us a song you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight. Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feeling alright. View quote
Billy Joel
The six types of song that have shaped human nature-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs-I've come to think are obvious... View quote
Daniel Levitin
If a song was ever good, it's still good. View quote
Willie Nelson
Without a song, each day would be a century. View quote
Mahalia Jackson
Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak. View quote
Ashlee Simpson
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit." (Adam Levine)
Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance - that is all! View quote
Anaïs Nin
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two. View quote
Anthony de Mello
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not. View quote
Joanna Newsom
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. View quote
Stevie Nicks