Song Quotes - Page 10

• The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

  Bruce Lee

  Looks, Possibility, Bigs

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.152, Tuttle Publishing

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Long, Should, Despise

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• 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...

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Government, Watches

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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• 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.

  Rupert Holmes

  Writing, Rocks, Guarantees That

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• 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.

  Clarence Day

  Men, Generations, Poet

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'Humpty-Dumpty and Adam'.

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• 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.

  Ernest Gaines

  People, Singing, Church

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• 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.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Real, Singing

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• Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

  John Denver

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Denver

  Writing, Trying, Messages

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• 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.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Self, World, Way

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• My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Kids

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• Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

  Holly Near

  Thinking, Expression, Language

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• Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

  Omar Khayyam

  Death, Lying, Wine

  Omar Khayyam (1868). “Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].”, p.6

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• You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Lap, Plans

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• Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Swans, Tongue, Tunes

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• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

  Warren Zevon

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, College, Years

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Growing Up, Rap, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

  Homer

  Novelty, Audience

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

  Lionel Blue

  Suffering, Sides, Weakness

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• The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

  Neil Diamond

  Moving, Writing, Way

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• People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

  Todd Rundgren

  Music, People

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Cynical, Forever

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

  Bryan Adams

  Caring, Night, Feet

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• I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Hands, Stronger

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