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Quotes About Song

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
~ Christina Perri
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
~ Al Yankovic
I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.
~ B.J. The Chicago Kid
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
~ Betty Comden
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
~ Betty Smith
I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
~ Bob Seger
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
~ Burton Cummings
The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.
~ David Longstreth
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
~ Eddy Grant
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
~ James A. Baldwin
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
~ Sarah McLachlan
If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.
~ William Fitzsimmons
My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
~ Laura Benanti
You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you.
~ Megan McCafferty
a raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them
~ Mark Twain
Había una canción en todos los corazones; y si el corazón era joven, la canción asomaba a los labios.
~ Mark Twain
The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips.
~ Markus Zusak
Cogió a la niña por la espalda y la estrechó con fuerza contra ella. Cantó una canción, pero en voz tan baja que Liesel apenas la oyó. Las notas nacían en su aliento y morían en sus labios.
~ Markus Zusak
She sang a song, but it was so quiet that Liesel could not make it out. The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips.
~ Markus Zusak
Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.
~ Martin Heidegger
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum I live in a cara-van  dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man  dum dum
~ Arundhati Roy
Dear goddess! Face-up again against the renewal of vows. Do not let me die a coward, mother. Nor forget how to sing. Nor forget song is a part of mourning as light is a part of sun.
~ Audre Lorde