Quotes About Song

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so longHave done my credit in this World much wrong:Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup,And sold my Reputation for a Song.

Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region—the register—between speech and song.

In its next issue, the Albany Journal featured a song that began: Behold Columbia's empire rise, On freedom's solid base to stand; Supported by propitious skies, And seal'd by her deliverer's hand.118 In case any reader missed its meaning, newspapers reprinting this song added a footnote stating that the last line referred to Washington's signature on the Constitution.

Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang "Tilly-loo!"Till away they flew—And they never came back to me!

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds' The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

A song that is the sole voice of the soul merely soothes the stress of the heart, else it only causes strain to the brain

DDLJ is one of the few films that credits a person (Kirron Kher) for the 'title idea'. The title is part of the lyrics of a song from the film Chor Machaye Shor (1970).

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations.

Every Tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality--namely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.

'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.