Quotes About Songs

The music of birds. I guess everything comes from that, the dances of simple country folk, the old songs that both cure and trouble the hearts of listeners.

The radio returned our culture to the experience of the tribal campfire with its shared stories, songs, and banter.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

Billy is all for the subtle use of profanity, but too much just seems excessive, like saxophone solos in rock songs.

He was an erudite man and began our conversation with a history of slave religion, telling me about the Africans who, newly landed on hostile shoes, had sat circled around a fire mixing newfound myths with ancient rhythms, their songs becoming a vessel for those most radical of ideas – survival, and freedom, and hope.

But he had made his choice and had patiently put his life to rights afterward, though it had been years before he could sit through certain songs.

I hear America singing! Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs!

While a vision of world peace may have given John and Yoko some good songs, it is hopelessly naïve in the real world.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.

I don't have any favourite lyrics. Honestly, all of them I love 'em to death - it's the same with songs. I don't have just one favourite lyric, I love them all.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.