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Quotes About Song

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
~ Kate Atkinson
Every man is the hero of his own song.
~ Tad Williams
Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
~ Alan Jackson
Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
~ Billy Joel
I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
~ Dolly Parton
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.
~ George R. R. Martin
I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
~ Hal Linden
You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...
~ Holly Near
The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.
~ Jesse Ball
Let every man sing his own song in life.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!
~ Brandon Heath
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
~ Mother Teresa
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
~ Adam Sandler
I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.
~ Maya Rudolph
'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.
~ Jessie Mueller
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
~ Syd Barrett
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.
~ Miriam Makeba
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
~ Franz Liszt
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
~ John Barrowman
Silence is more musical than any song.
~ Christina Rossetti
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
~ Cecil Taylor
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
~ Nina Simone