Song Quotes - page 91

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song. (DMX (rapper))

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

Erykah Badu

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

André Maurois

Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.

Suzanne Collins

One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. ... Or so says the legend.

Colleen McCullough

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

Fiona Apple

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

Regina Spektor

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

Regina Spektor

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

Leslie Feist

When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada. (Leslie Feist)

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

Sara Bareilles

I had that Paul McKenna come up to me once and he said, 'I love that song of yours about bicycles.' So I said to McKenna, 'And I loved the stunt you did in that glass box above the Thames.'

KT Tunstall

I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

Marisa Miller

I sang it about soldiers, then, later, about gay men. It touches me deeply every time. I used to perform this song at Mr Henry's and people would be totally silent. I knew it moved them.

Roberta Flack

It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky...

Mitch Hedberg

You don't want to be down in the trenches, remembering with me, where you will not mark my leaving, and you will not hear my parting song. Nor is there cause for grieving. Nor is there cause for carrying on.

Joanna Newsom

Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

Dinah Craik

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.

Dinah Craik

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

Harriet Martineau

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio. (Dionne Warwick)

For what would I be otherwise but sport, In love with one who does not care for me? I will hide pain in smiles, sooner than be The common talk. It is a bitter art To sing a happy song with a sad heart.

Christine de Pizan

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

Amy Tan

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

Cassandra Clare

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

Angel Haze

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