Neil Gaiman Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Voice, People

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Pain, Wine

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, People, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.201, Hachette UK

• It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

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  Song

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Song, Dust

• The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Dynasty, Emperor

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.6, Harper Collins

• It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Interesting, Bird

• I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Writing, Car

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

• Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a bit, as musicals - in old musicals, like in an old Cole Porter musical, you get the action, then they do a song, which reflects a moment - everything stops while that is being sung - and then you restart. These days in most musicals, the plot keeps moving through the song. I think it would be nice if someone constructed some pornography where the sex continues to propel you through the story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, Nice, Moving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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