The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
Families without songs are unhappy families.
Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along, Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter Chill as a dull face frowning on a song. Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.
The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
All my songs are where I am.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I like to sing love songs.
The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.
There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
My songs are like my kids.
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