Quotes About Song

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 Romania.

But by an extraordinarily lucky chance they had not yet fully corrected their flight paths to that of the erratically weaving ship, and they passed right under it. "And the sweet silver song of the lark.'… Revised impact time fifteen seconds, fellas…. 'Walk on through the wind …

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish, To set before the king. The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes, When down came a blackbird And pecked off her nose.

During the war there was a popular song called "Father, You Were Strong" ("Chichi yo, anata wa tsuyokatta"), but I want to say "Mother, You Were Strong.

We sang as we walked, all of us, singing a hundred different songs, and the Nazis let us sing. Another small mercy. Or perhaps they too missed the way the world had been before the war.

A life was a symphony, with different movements and complicated musical forms. A song was something shorter. A smaller piece of a life.

It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse—'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

I've always wanted something that the message is meaningful to me. I think about all these diversified personalities, people, and countries that I play. I'm simple, and I want to be able to sing my songs to anybody.

There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

I have noticed that when a girl or guy falls in love, and they call their girlfriend or boyfriend with cute names, then 'Honey Bunny' is one of the most famous ones, so we picked that up and created a song.

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.

I think 'American Pie' is great.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.