NEVER BE AFRAID TO DART AROUND IN PUBLIC, HUMMING THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE THEME SONG. T-SHIRT - Darynda Jones I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. - Hoagy Carmichael One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it. - Martin Fleischmann I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. - Jeff Foxworthy I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights. - Dana Hill Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song. - Joel Hodgson Because with Charlie, nothing was ever easy. Everything was ...

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song. - Charlie Byrd Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now? Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now? - Paramore Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other. - Brandon Thomas

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. - Henry Miller We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. - Michel Patini

One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing but his song, the song with which it was his business as a minstrel to serenade every castle and cottage, the song of the joy of the Creator in His creation and the beauty of the brotherhood of men. - Gilbert K Chesterton After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure. - Stanley Clarke Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song. - Jarvis Cocker I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. - Joe Cocker To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. - Ursula K Le Guin 'You know your in Love when you sing a song without air or...

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards. - Wayne Coyne But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. - Neil Innes I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. - Ian Williams

Well, now, Dobber has a pretty fair sort of memory, and he says that Miss Sarah Brown tells The Sky that since he seems to know so much about the Bible, maybe he remembers the second verse of the Song of Solomon, but the chances are Dobber muffs the number of the verse, because I look the matter up in one of these Gideon Bibles, and the verse seems a little too much for Miss Sarah Brown, although of course you never can tell. - Damon Runyon Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it. Song of Solomon 8: 7. - Tiffany Reisz

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day. - Anita Diament If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words - strike that, I love words - and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too. - Stephen Fry ..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they...

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric. - Trey Anastasio This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. - Hermann Hesse All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong And he will also find the little god whom girls like best: beside the well he lies, still, with his eyes shut. Verily, in bright daylight he fell asleep, the sluggard! Did he chase after the butterflies too much?... He may cry and weep - but he is laughable even when he weeps. And with tears in his eyes he shall ask you for a dance and I myself will sing a song for his dance: a dancing and mocking song on the spirit of gravity... (p.108 - The Dancing Song) - Friedrich Nietzsche You don't love someone for their looks, o...

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy. - Cheryl James You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you. - Jayz I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa. - Johnny Rotton While 'Rap Trax!' recorded, Neel found some scrap paper and we started writing our first lyrics. Bandying about subject matter and title, we got stuck on the idea of 'cool', so my first rap song became 'Pretty Cool'. It was a symbol of our confidence. We weren't awesome cool or mega cool. We were only... pretty cool. - Nikesh Shukla A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se. - Al Yankovic

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs. - Eric Avery How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse) I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher) - Sherrilyn Kenyon I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. - Michael Buble Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back. - Elvis Costello Trust me Miki. Nothing cures heartache f...

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...

Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack. - Ilona Andrews Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. - Frankie Avalon You can only blame your problems on the world for so long Before it all becomes the same old song - Fall Out Boy And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. - Beau Bridges I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. - Charles Stuart Calverley ethereal, adj. You leaned your head into mine, and I leaned my head into yours. Dancing cheek ...

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you. - Nicholas Sparks We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song. - Charlie Byrd He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars. - Catherine Fisher If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. - Kazuo Ishiguro Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now? Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now? - Paramore Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other. - Brandon Thomas

[Wheel] rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be a part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. I have a theoru that the answers to all og life's major questions can be found in a John Mayer song. - Susane Colasanti I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. - Susane Colasanti

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. - Big Bill Broonzy There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. - Eugene Chadbourne You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. - Terry Pratchett Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about...cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about...something else entirely," she added darkly. - Terry Pratchett What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. - Justin Townes Earle But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them ...