I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.
- Sherman Alexie
My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
- Maya Angelou
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
- Melina Marchetta
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
- Chester Bennington
Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.
- Nuno Bettencourt
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
- Nicholas Sparks
So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.
- Suzanne Collins
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
- Suzanne Collins
And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.
- Suzanne Collins
your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.
- Paul Celan
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
- Chris Cornell
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
- Wayne Coyne
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
- Sheryl Crow
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
- John Green
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
- Jason Derulo
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
- Bob Dylan
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
- Louise Erdrich
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau
Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.
- William Gibson
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
- Dave Grohl
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
- Dan Hawkins
Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
- George Grove
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power...
- Woody Guthrie
Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
- Jennifer Lopez
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
- Marvin Hamlisch
Real data is messy....It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
- Tom Stoppard
Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.
- Isaac Hanson
[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.
- Edward P Jones
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
- Adam Jones
I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.
- Charles Kelley
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
- Kimbra
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
- B B King
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
- Talib Kweli
Hail to St. Aegolius
Our Alma Mater.
Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee
Long in the memory of every loyal owl
Thy splendid banner emblazoned be.
Now to thy golden talons
Homage we're bringing.
Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears
Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing
Long may we triumph in the coming years.
- The Owls of St. Aegolius
- Kathryn Lasky
We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.
- Avril Lavigne
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
- Jared Leto
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
- Nick Lowe
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
- Ian Mackaye
Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
- Anne Mccaffrey
Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
- Anne Mccaffrey
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
- Frank Mccourt
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Brian Mcknight
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
- Ricky Nelson
Our darling Roberta,
No sorrow shall hurt her
If we can prevent it
Her whole life long.
Her birthday's our fete day,
We'll make it our great day,
And give her our presents
And sing her our song.
May pleasures attend her
And may the Fates send her
The happiest journey
Along her life's way.
With skies bright above her
And dear ones to love her!
Dear Bob! Many happy
Returns of the day!
- E Nesbit
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
- Peter Noone
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
- Alan Parsons
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul Ii
Sing your song
Dance your dance
Tell your story
I will Listen and remember
- Utah Phillips
Sing little box
Don't let sleep overtake you
The world's awake within you
In your four-sided emptiness
We turn distance into nearness
Forgetfulness into memory
Don't let your nails come loose
For the very first time
We watch sights beyond this world
Through your keyhole
Turn your key in our mouths
Swallow words and numbers
Out of your song
Don't let your lid fly open
Your bottom drop
Sing little box
- Vasko Popa
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
- Dee Dee Ramone
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
- Amy Ray
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
- Helen Reddy
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
- Adam Rich
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
- Maggie Stiefvater
We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!
- Graham Russell
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
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
- Robert Smith
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
- Mel Tillis
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
- Kip Winger
- Sherman Alexie
My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't understand the words to their songs, she found the music almost unbearably sad. After the concert, Kate approached the lead Mongolian singer and asked, "What are your songs about?" He replied, "Our songs are about the same things that everyone else's songs are about: lost love, and somebody stole your fastest horse.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
- Maya Angelou
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
- Melina Marchetta
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
- Chester Bennington
Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.
- Nuno Bettencourt
I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.
- Nicholas Sparks
So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.
- Suzanne Collins
No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says.
- Suzanne Collins
And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.
- Suzanne Collins
your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.
- Paul Celan
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
- Chris Cornell
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
- Wayne Coyne
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
- Sheryl Crow
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
- John Green
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
- Jason Derulo
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
- Bob Dylan
Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
- Louise Erdrich
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau
Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.
- William Gibson
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
- Dave Grohl
There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
- Dan Hawkins
Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
- George Grove
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power...
- Woody Guthrie
Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.
- Jennifer Lopez
The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.
- Marvin Hamlisch
Real data is messy....It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
- Tom Stoppard
Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.
- Isaac Hanson
[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.
- Edward P Jones
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
- Adam Jones
I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.
- Charles Kelley
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
- Kimbra
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
- B B King
Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
- Talib Kweli
Hail to St. Aegolius
Our Alma Mater.
Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee
Long in the memory of every loyal owl
Thy splendid banner emblazoned be.
Now to thy golden talons
Homage we're bringing.
Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears
Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing
Long may we triumph in the coming years.
- The Owls of St. Aegolius
- Kathryn Lasky
We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.
- Avril Lavigne
It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.
- Jared Leto
You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
- Nick Lowe
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
- Ian Mackaye
Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away.
- Anne Mccaffrey
Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
- Anne Mccaffrey
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
- Frank Mccourt
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
- Brian Mcknight
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
- Ricky Nelson
Our darling Roberta,
No sorrow shall hurt her
If we can prevent it
Her whole life long.
Her birthday's our fete day,
We'll make it our great day,
And give her our presents
And sing her our song.
May pleasures attend her
And may the Fates send her
The happiest journey
Along her life's way.
With skies bright above her
And dear ones to love her!
Dear Bob! Many happy
Returns of the day!
- E Nesbit
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
- Peter Noone
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
- Alan Parsons
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
- Pope John Paul Ii
Sing your song
Dance your dance
Tell your story
I will Listen and remember
- Utah Phillips
Sing little box
Don't let sleep overtake you
The world's awake within you
In your four-sided emptiness
We turn distance into nearness
Forgetfulness into memory
Don't let your nails come loose
For the very first time
We watch sights beyond this world
Through your keyhole
Turn your key in our mouths
Swallow words and numbers
Out of your song
Don't let your lid fly open
Your bottom drop
Sing little box
- Vasko Popa
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
- Dee Dee Ramone
But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.
- Amy Ray
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
- Helen Reddy
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
- Adam Rich
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
- Maggie Stiefvater
We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to!
- Graham Russell
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
If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.
- Robert Smith
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
- Mel Tillis
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
- Kip Winger
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