Song Quotes - page 96

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. (Tom Petty)
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it. View quote
Patrick Henry
When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.' View quote
Robby Krieger
I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. View quote
Mick Taylor
For, no: not faith by fable lives, But from the faith the fable springs - It never is the song that gives Tongue life, it is the tongue that sings; And sings the song. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it. View quote
Brian Wilson
I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song. View quote
Brian Wilson
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. View quote
Brian Wilson
Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved. View quote
David Foster Wallace
People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung. View quote
Neil Peart
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song. (Jon Anderson)
'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. View quote
Harry Connick
When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among people, To make music in the heart. View quote
Howard Thurman
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks. View quote
Jeff Lynne
The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.' View quote
Patrick Stump
Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven. View quote
Donovan
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. View quote
Henry Rollins
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. View quote
Henry Rollins
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. View quote
Henry Rollins
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. (Henry Rollins)
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. View quote
Henry Rollins
He had a notebook: he'd take it, list through it and sing every song one by one over the radio. The chetniks would sing him Ceca and Vesna Zmijanac, and he would sing for them Zaim Imamović and Safet Isović. View quote
Jusuf Prazina
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. View quote
Manfred Mann