Song Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Denis Norden

  Comedian, Use, Pay

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• 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.

  George Meredith

  Laughter, Sunset, Like Love

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

  Francois Mauriac

  Lying, Men, Grandeur

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• All my songs are where I am.

  Adam Duritz

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Together, Records

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2011.

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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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• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Writing, Play, Would Be

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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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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Cheer, Blood, America

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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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• 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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• Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

  Neil Diamond

  Blue, My Favorite, Refining

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Eight, Here I Am, Nine

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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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• 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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• Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

  Tony Curtis

  Opera, Singers, Able

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• I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

  George Gershwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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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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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Nice, Giving, Harmony

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

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