Song Quotes - Page 18

• It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

  George Harrison

  Evil, Magazines, May

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• Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

  Sheryl Crow

  Nike, Macaroni

  Song: The Na-Na Song, Album: Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993

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• Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

  Joan Baez

  Hero, Sgt Pepper, Gone

  Song: Sgt. Pepper's Band

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• She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.

  Ty Herndon

  Born, Baton Rouge, Favorite Song

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• I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone.

  Marc Cohn

  Baby, Night, Light

  FaceBook post by Marc Cohn from Aug 28, 2015

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Nature, Silence

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nature, Stars, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Church, Choir

  Song: Inmates, Album: From the Inside, 1978

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• A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

  Rod Stewart

  Peace, Children, Special

  Song: Ghetto Blaster, Album: Body Wishes

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Peace, Hate, War

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Crazy, Dating, Making Love

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• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, People, Different

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• His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.

  Waylon Jennings

  Art, Dark, Simple

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• Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

  Waylon Jennings

  Art, Winning, Media

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• I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

  Justin Timberlake

  Naked, Ends, Controversy

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• Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

  David Bowie

  Men, Voice, Musical

  Song: Song For Bob Dylan, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

  Lou Reed

  Musical, Better Days, Diana

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Long, Poetry, Sparrows

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• I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

  Glenda Millard

  Heart, Long, Tears

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• Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

  Gram Parsons

  Religious, Jesus, Rivers

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• While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

  Neil Diamond

  Religious, Voice, Religion

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• Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

  Theocritus

  Music, Tomorrow

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• I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

  David Allan Coe

  Written

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• Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

  David Coverdale

  Tongue, Tongue In Cheek, Cheeks

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• The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

  David Coverdale

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