Quotes About Song

Los monos cantaban cerca de la casa en la madrugada, y un poco más tristes al atardecer, y eso contribuía a que se acentuara más la sensación de la soledad y el misterio, y la emoción de la vida salvaje.

For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.

I Do Not Sing Because I Dream I do not sing because I dream. I simply sing because you're real. I sing your ripened gaze, your purest smile, your animal grace. I sing because I am a man. And if I didn't sing I'd be just a brute, bursting with health, blind drunk and dizzy with delight there in your vineyard without wine. I sing because love wishes it. Because hay ripens in your arms, glistening wet. Because my body tightens facing them, bare and bathed in sweat.

You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn't like it, and then it doesn't get released. It could be the best song that you've ever written. I hated that, because I didn't have any control.

If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

The music of 'Damadamm!' will be released by my company, HR Musik, and you will find a completely different Himesh in every song.

I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'

Doing a remake of an iconic song is always nerve-racking because you never know if you can actually do justice to it.

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.

We all record together. We do it live; then, after that, we do overdubs, if we need to, to repair stuff. Usually when we do stuff, we have to make sure we get the bass and drums down, and by doing it live, you're actually playing the song. You're not piecing together a song.

If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

I try to play 'Maneater' by Daryl Hall and John Oates at least once when I drive somewhere. It gets me so 'hype,' as the kids would say.

Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

No one is immortal. Don't worry too much about your life. Just sing your song... and go.

My first impression when I heard 'Heaven' was, 'Do not let anyone else have that song! I'm putting it on hold.' I knew it was special from the first time I heard it, and I thought my fans would love it as much as I did.

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.

I want to experiment and include different elements of the music-making process in a song.

It's the lyrics that makes a song a hit, although the tune, of course, is what makes it last.