Explore Quotes on Song

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old.

A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and just getting on my knees holding her hand just singing. And I was like, you know what, I got to just sell it. I remember that day they were like, yo we want to sign you. [After] I went into the bathroom, I started crying, [and] I called my mom. I was like momma – I did it.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, sometimes a certain song will help me feel emotions that evoke tears.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.