Song Quotes - Page 9

• I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Simple, Trying

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• I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's out on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

  Dr. Dre

  Waiting, Records, Want

  "Dr. Dre Says Leaked 'Under Pressure' Was 'An Incomplete Song'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Care, Superstitions

  Following the Equator ch. 51, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Percy Shelley 15

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• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Attitude, War, Fire

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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• You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

  Brian McKnight

  Hurt, Children, Kids

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• Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

  Brian McKnight

  Done, Way, One Way

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dying, Age, Growing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  Fergie

  People, Audience

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• To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

  Holly Near

  Men, Perspective, Female

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• All my songs are where I am.

  Adam Duritz

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• My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

  Tracy Chapman

  Guitar, Years, Firsts

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• For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

  Steve Kazee

  Passion, Writing, Careers

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

  Amy Carmichael

  Believe, Rooms, Satan

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• The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Blue, Guitar

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

  Hal Borland

  Voice, Rivers, Firsts

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• Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Endure, Composer

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would never put my songs in a commercial.

  Tom Petty

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• When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

  Euripides

  Wrath, Two, Long

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Congratulations, Self

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

  Richie Sambora

  Musical, Trying, Looks

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• 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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• Families without songs are unhappy families.

  Pat Conroy

  Singing, Unhappy, Happy Family

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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