Song Quotes - Page 38

• Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

  Harry Shearer

  Flow, Comedy, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together and suit the melody, I think most of the best songs in the world are fairly clear about what they mean to say.

  J. Robbins

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

  Ester Dean

  Writing, Transition, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

  Ester Dean

  Cheating, Writing, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.

  Ester Dean

  Real, Music Industry, Accolades

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

  Brenda Holloway

  Knights, Camels, Broke

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• I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

  Aurora Aksnes

  Thinking, Sound, Studios

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

  Conway Twitty

  Records, Thousand, Ten

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• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Style, Records

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.

  J. Robbins

  Communication, Favorites Things, Nails

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Sweet, Pain, Book

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  Ryan Adams

  Cutting, Together, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

  Ryan Adams

  Crafts, Littles, Tunes

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Singing, Deep Emotions, Tone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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• I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"

  J. Robbins

  Couple, Cutting, Order

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Years, Bob, Tvs

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brave, Soul, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Passion, Summertime

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Rivers, Green

  'Afton Water' (1792)

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• For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Self, Should Have

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• Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

  John Milton

  Soul, Mazes, Charm

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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• And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

  John Milton

  Larks, Nests, Approach

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.72

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• Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Light, Secret

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Struggle, Difficulty

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Long, Gold

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.15

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