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Quotes About Song

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.
~ Jamey Johnson
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.
~ Rajneesh
The tree still celebrates its essential treeness through song, as nature will do whatever we impose on her. Birds still sing their ancient songs in the middle of a bustling city, with all its cacophony of man-made sounds. Dry leaves still rustle like dice even when growing against concrete or hewn stone. Out of a tiny crack in a pavement will crawl a perfectly formed insect, a creature of curves and protrusions amidst a linear world of man's engineering.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
They sang that song which distills all the suffering and the hope of Africa; that song which had inspired and comforted so many, "Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika," God Bless Africa, give her life, watch over her children.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive
~ Alexander Pushkin
But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy. Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?
~ Alexandra Ripley
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts; and Caderousse began to sing the two last lines of a song very popular at the time, —
~ Alexandre Dumas
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~ Donna Roberts
MORNING LIGHT BROUGHT the sound of Livvie' s voice raised in yet another song I'd never heard. From down in the yard the deep velvety sound grew like the glow of a warm fire as she approached the house.   "Free at last! Free at last! Thank Gawd I free at last! Way down yonder in the graveyard walk, gone meet my Jesus and we gone talk, On my knees when the light pass by, thought my soul would rise and fly!
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
~ Dorothy Parker
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.
~ Dorothy Parker
The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
Jesus literally sang as He was preparing to go to the cross. So, the sacrifices that you will make for your children should be something you can sing over. If there is not a song in it, it is not a biblical sacrifice.
~ Douglas Wilson
I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.
~ Iron & Wine
Life's a song,sing it
~ Mother Teresa
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a heathen company, more devoted to the customs and the Holy days than to the Holiness itself. We find more pleasure in the song and dance of God than in the piety.
~ Jim Crace
Each singer adds his own voice to the chorus but sings a song all his own.
~ Jim Dutcher
If Jimmy indeed cracked corn and you truly didn't care, why the fuck did you write a song about it? I call bullshit.
~ Jim Goad
E não é sem assim que as palavras tem canto e plumagem.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
God respects me when I work. He loves me when I sing. Tagore
~ Joan Baez
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
~ Joan Jett
A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund