Quotes About Song

Threadsuns above the grayblack wastes. A tree- high thought grasps the light-tone: there are still songs to sing beyond mankind.

MONDEGREEN. A term for misheard song lyrics, coined by American freelance writer Sylvia Wright (1920–1961) in 1954. It derived from her long-held belief that a song contained the line, "They had slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen." In fact, the line ended with the words, "and laid him on the green.

As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

WILLIAMS: The phrase, of course, is a variation of a line from the song MacArthur Park. Any idea why the terrorists picked that particular song, Elizabeth? BURGER: Brian, one theory is that it was chosen specifically to demoralize the United States, because it gets stuck in your head and everybody hates it.

That got her up on stage pretty quick, and she sang a song, which was in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about, except she seemed to be singing it mainly to Sharisse and it had a word that sounded like "poota" in it a lot.

Probably the most violently hated of the weenie songs cited in the survey was "Sometimes When We Touch," sung in a very emotional manner by Dan Hill, who sounds as though he's having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen . Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved.

our cage We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird, And sing our bondage freely.

The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore tree. Sing all a green willow: Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow: The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing willow, willow, willow; Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones; Lay by these: Sing willow, willow, willow; Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon.

Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue, And dance, as I your dances oft have led, And laugh, as I have often laughed with you - And be most merry - after I am dead.

Demelza cominciò a cantare giocosa e con voce profonda: «C'era una vecchia coppia, senza un soldo in tasca, Tweedle, tweedle, go twee.»

Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]

the French Canadians… derived greater pleasure from singing "God Save the King" than from singing "Rule Britannia.

On a day when I estimated it was my mothers birthday, I sang 'Happy Birthday' to her out loud.

Bitter Sweet Symphony' was legally removed from the Verve and credited to Jagger–Richards. Klein went on to license the song for use in a TV commercial by Nike.