Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 4
Bob MarleyI don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. Votes: 4
Nick CaveDo not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Votes: 4
Pope John Paul IITo reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. Votes: 4
Ricky NelsonGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. Votes: 4
Bob MarleyI'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. Votes: 4
Billy JoelWords make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. Votes: 4
Yip HarburgI wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope. Votes: 3
Billie Joe ArmstrongFor hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodLabour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.
Frederick William FaberIf only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.
John James AudubonThe first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.
Rabindranath TagoreYou must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
Alexis De VeauxDay-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.
Harriet MartineauThe reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
Robert James WallerFather, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
Aiden Wilson TozerThere is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song
Masanobu FukuokaI'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!
Melanie MartinezIf you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?
Sophie KinsellaBillie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
Theophilus LondonYou know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
Julia Spencer-FlemingWords are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.
Julie AndrewsThe song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
Khalil GibranI swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
Leonard CohenWhen your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.
Mehmet Murat ildanThe singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song
Rabindranath TagoreDust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
Omar KhayyamPoetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.
Carl SandburgThe easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
David CrosbyIf you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
Garth HudsonEach time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Hans Christian AndersenI drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Jodi PicoultHoly, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Reginald HeberWhen you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman AlexieI no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,
Sufjan StevensI'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
Tracy ChapmanWhenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
Alison KraussThe song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely.
Brandon BaysI think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song .
Charles HartshorneI could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me
Emilie AutumnThe architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
Emily HainesAmerica is a song that sounds the best when we all sing together - at least for a while.
Michael JosephsonI don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
Noel GallagherSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
Paul McCartneyI guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.
Sinead O'ConnorSing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars
Susan Polis SchutzThe music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte LehmannBlending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.
Maynard James KeenanIt's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Rob SheffieldSong is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.
William WatsonHe was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur GoldenI'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
Betty GrableWe got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.
Dave MustaineI'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.
Dia FramptonThe only song I can sing is Lady in Red so that must tell you how great it must have been.
Diane KrugerWhen I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.
Gloria EstefanI usually tell somebody if a song's for them. I don't always tell them if it's about them.
Guy GarveyWhen I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.
Jackson HarrisHe has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.
Louise RennisonI didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
Mary J. BligeA song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!
Paul Laurence DunbarI don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Sheryl CrowIn the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.
Steven TylerCicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
TheocritusI feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
Brooke FraserI always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Cameron CroweYouâre the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you
Demi LovatoReally, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.
Enrique IglesiasThat's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Harlan CobenWhen you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
Joe SatrianiIt's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
Mark LowryIn the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
Muriel BarberyA bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.
Quincy JonesAnd hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
W. H. DaviesOne day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
Woody GuthrieJesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
Andrew DominikThe sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song â not one. Not two.
Anthony de MelloI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanA good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.
Charli XCXWriting 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
Dar WilliamsI have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.
Dylan MoranThis song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
George HarrisonThere's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.
George JonesWhen the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.
Hoodie AllenYou can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
Irving BerlinYou definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.
John Britt DanielMan is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Joseph JoubertJohn could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
Paul McCartneyWhen we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
Richard SchmidWhat you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Scott PuteskyWhen you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist
Tim McGrawWords are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.
Ze FrankThe judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it
Blake LewisI recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Burt BacharachDoing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.
Chip EstenIf I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.
G-EazyMusically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
Joni MitchellAdversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
Karen WhiteHe alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Khalil GibranI guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
Mick BarrMorrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy SinatraSometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
Nick CaveThen the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Rachel CarsonNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaI'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
The EdgeA song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Thomas AquinasWhen I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
T-PainIt costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
Allan MoyleI'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.
Beyonce KnowlesWe think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.
Chrisette MicheleI am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
Christina MilianBroadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.
Darren CrissAll great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
John RuskinI aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
Les BaxterI usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there
Lucinda WilliamsA song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...
Roberta FlackThe activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.
Ronald A. HeifetzSometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,
Taylor SwiftThe moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.
Amy SedarisThe song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.
Britt RobertsonI'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.
David CrabbThe song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.
Deepak ChopraIf a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.
Jake BuggWhen it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.
Jenny O.When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.
Richard BachBloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.
Roky EricksonI loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
Sammy HagarAs much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
Steve MartinIf we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.
ThomstonThere's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.
Tove LoI like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
Anne RiceThe song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
Betty ComdenI don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."
Charlie DayI think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.
Craig FinnI've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
Dan BejarWe all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
Dave HaywoodHeaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
Dorothy L. SayersSo, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
Duncan SheikIt's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeownThe air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
George Henry LewesI was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.
George StraitEvery leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris ElbaI do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.
Jakob DylanThis is a song called 'The Kill.' But don't be scared, it's a nice song. About losing your mind.
Jared LetoAny idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
Joe ElliottWe just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
Lucinda WilliamsI couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
Naima AdedapoEvery song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
Ne-YoMy dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.
Rachel TrachtenburgEven when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.
SonRealAs long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
Bob DylanI think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
Courtney BarnettI listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.
Cynthia Addai-RobinsonIf I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.
Danny BrownWriting, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
George EtheregeIt's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
Hal DavidIt excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
Jill ScottMy mum dated a guy from Liverpool. The Liverpool fans made up a song that she 'loves Scouse c*ck'
John TerryMy idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
Keith MorrisI listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
Lana Del ReyI try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
Robbie RobertsonSome of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
Spencer W. KimballThe Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever,
Taylor SwiftYou don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.
Annette FunicelloNovember Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
Axl RoseWhen I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombsOnce in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.
Cliff RichardIf all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.
Gladys KnightSam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.
Johnny CashYou can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
Justin TimberlakeNormally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
Kate BushAnd then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Khalil GibranPeople ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio
Kurt CobainOne good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
Phil OchsI feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.
Rick JamesHey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.
Robert CrumbOnly to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent does the song of a bird seem always the same.
Rosa LuxemburgI was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
Rupert HolmesChestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
Sidney CrosbyIf I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.
Simone Bittencourt de OliveiraI always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Bradford CoxAnyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.
Britney SpearsA songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
Bryan AdamsThey really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
Coco LeeAny song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
Daryl HallIt's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
Eric BachmannA great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.
Georgia NottI know this song!' Rosie laughed. "If you didn't, that'd be the final proof that you're from Mars.
Graeme SimsionThough a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.
Jacob BannonIf I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
Jessie JI was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.
Margaret ChoEveryone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
MatisyahuI honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
Chad KroegerI never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
Chris IsaakI hate it when you buy a record for the single and find out that is the only good song on the album.
Christian BurnsSomewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us
Demi LovatoAnyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!
Kacey MusgravesI want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song.
Kim Kyu-jongLike our title song âClapâ, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.
L.JoeI found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
Meryl StreepThe actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
Nick CaveMost wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyI think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.
Ragnar KjartanssonEvery nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God.
Thomas A. DorseySong, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
Louise BoganWhen you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! Votes: 3 Tom Wopat
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. Votes: 4 Cecilia Bartoli
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. Votes: 5 Zooey Deschanel
She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there! Votes: 4 Jason Aldean
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. Votes: 1 Alan Parsons
The moment you begin your journey, the whole universe begins to enjoy your song. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you. Votes: 3 Raf Simons
Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. Votes: 1 Luanne Rice
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. Votes: 2 Pete Seeger
The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. Votes: 2 Hubert H. Humphrey
After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written. Votes: 2 Mark Knopfler
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it. Votes: 4 Sevyn Streeter
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with. Votes: 2 Talib Kweli
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Votes: 2 Nicholas Sparks
I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist. Votes: 1 Stephen Colbert
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well. Votes: 1 Mike Love
Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs. Votes: 3 Nolan Sotillo
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. Votes: 2 Joan Baez
I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. Votes: 3 Brian Posehn
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. Votes: 4 Len G. Murray
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs. Votes: 4 Levon Helm
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. Votes: 3 Friedrich Ebert
Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song! Votes: 6 Erwin McManus
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. Votes: 6 John Fogerty
We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to! Votes: 4 Graham Russell
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen. Votes: 4 Chris Martin
All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song. Votes: 3 Kesha
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Votes: 2 Mel Torme
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David. Votes: 2 William Brewster
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.' Votes: 3 Lady Gaga
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. Votes: 2 John Waters
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion. Votes: 3 Bruno Mars
I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. Votes: 1 Trent Reznor
I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat, Votes: 2 Lou Reed
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. Votes: 8 Richard Thompson
It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs. Votes: 4 Marcus Mumford
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. Votes: 4 Walter Savage Landor
To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing. Votes: 4 Brendon Urie
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost. Votes: 4 John Podhoretz
I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music. Votes: 2 Karan Johar
It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music! Votes: 1 Tyrese Gibson
I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat. Votes: 1 Rufus Wainwright
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Votes: 5 Emory Austin
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead. Votes: 3 Joan Oliver Goldsmith
I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song. Votes: 1 Deborah Cox
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. Votes: 1 Jacob Lusk
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. Votes: 4 Jason Mraz
This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do. Votes: 1 George Thorogood
In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha
I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day! Votes: 1 Brenda Song
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing. Votes: 1 Roger McGuinn
Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song. Votes: 4 Elvis Costello
In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.' Votes: 2 James Blunt
When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A. Votes: 4 Allison Williams
I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song. Votes: 1 Mary Lambert
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance. Votes: 3 Jon Krakauer