Song Quotes - Page 39

• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Memories, Civilization, Rivers

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Feelings, Cures, Gospel Songs

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• People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

  Thalia

  People, Passionate, Affection

  "Singer Thalia Gets Personal, Emotional In ‘Growing Stronger’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Feelings, Mind, Doe

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• Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Christmas, Angel, Blow

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.393

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• Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

  Bayard Taylor

  Perfect, Higher

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Spiritual, Laughter

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• People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Lying, Rocks

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• Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Significant, Irreplaceable

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• We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

  Robert Browning

  Bidding, Done, Deeds

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.82, Everyman's Library

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• In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

  Garry Shandling

  Inspirational, Years, Firsts

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• What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

  Dave Grohl

  Inspirational, Missing, Sound

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• I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

  John Fogerty

  Work, Beer, Giving

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• Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

  Rich Mullins

  Doors, Expression, Submarines

  Song: Screen Door

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• Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Voice, Said

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Chicks, Explanation

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• I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Strong, Growing Up, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.

  Quincy Jones

  Stars, Years, Two

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

  Quincy Jones

  Three, World, Lines

  "Quincy Jones Recalls 'Freaking Out' at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Wind, Perspective, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

  Mikal Cronin

  Workout, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

  Tove Styrke

  Challenges, Trying, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Looks, Checks, Streams

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

  Eddy Cue

  People, Want, Pay

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.

  Tove Styrke

  Writing, Albums, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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