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Quotes About Song

But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.
~ William Kent Krueger
They're birds whose songs never fade.
~ William Kent Krueger
It was just Dylan, with a murmuring electric guitar, and the louder Hunter played the song, the larger were the spaces in the music, allowing him to crawl inside.
~ William McKeen
The band in heaven, they play my favorite songPlay it once againPlay it all night long
~ David Byrne
The pitch of the song of the Scarlet Tanager, for example, is different in the East, where the woods are denser, than it is in the West.V
~ David Byrne
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.
~ David Byrne
I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.
~ David Byrne
The explosive properties of gunpowder were first used in war by the Jin, the northern rivals of the Song, in 1221.
~ David Christian
It is more difficult to find the Creator in a barbecue sandwich than in your favorite Sunday-morning song, but when you do, when you begin to find Him in all the stuff of life, everything starts singing. Every moment breaks into song. Every breath becomes sacrifice, and the songs become sweetness. This is living praise.
~ David Crowder
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
~ Nanci Griffith
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
~ Kanye West
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~ Joaquin Miller
'Don't Cry Daddy' is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, 'I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy'. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
~ Mac Davis
Glorious the song, when God's the theme.
~ Christopher Smart
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
~ Andrew Solomon
As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.
~ Yip Harburg
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
~ Mitch Albom
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
~ Neil Diamond
God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
~ James Montgomery
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
~ Tom Petty