Quotes About Song

It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

'Manu' is one of the best albums. The climax song will be a trump card for all break-up songs. Everybody will talk about the language of the lyrics.

I love having my voice on my songs now, but it also means a lot to hear that another artist likes your song enough to cut it and put it on their album. It's a special kind of compliment.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I'm an actor, so I think without a character to play, a story to tell, a song to sing... there's some suspicion that there's no 'there' there. Like, if I were to just strip down and present myself, I think I'd sort of just... disappear.

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

It was amazing to remake and rewrite a song like 'Sweet Like Chocolate.' It feels like a good way to come back.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee:Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity.

The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed. Everything forever ended.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH You can begin right now to feel healthy. You can begin to feel prosperous. You can begin to feel the love that's surrounding you, even if it's not there. And what will happen is the universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The universe will correspond to the nature of that inner feeling and manifest, because that's the way you feel.

Well, I wrote that song for the village, but I wrote this one for the sky.