A Quotes
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“A song is a meaningful thing.”
“A song is a poem set to music.”
Source: The songwriter's handbook
“A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.”
“A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.”
“A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.”
“A song is anything that can walk by itself.”
Source: Bob Dylan in his own words
“A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area.”
Source: Ronnie
“A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.”
Source: Chronicles: Volume One
“A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.”
“A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.”
“A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.”
Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
“A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.”
“A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.”
“A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.”
“A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”
“A song is the most intangible thing in the world.”
“A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.”
“A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.”
“A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.”
“A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.”
“A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.”
“A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.”
“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
“A song of longing
carolled through the autumn breeze.
Ambling auburn leaves.
(Haiku)”
“A song of love makes the spirit dance with joy.”
“A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.”
“A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.”
Source: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
“A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
“A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.”
“A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.”
“A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.”
“A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.”
“A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate...Everything that happens to you influences your writing...The writing process for me is pretty much always the same-it's a solitary experience...I have yet to write that one song that defines my career...Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.”
“A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.”
“A song to the skies, and the clouds weep
as if they had been asleep.
Our songs are felt above and below,
and seep into the depths of our Souls.
Grateful for another day of loving,
and grateful for all for which I am.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.”
“A song was heard at Christmas
To wake the midnight sky:
A saviour's birth, and peace on earth,
And praise to God on high.
The angels sang at Christmas
With all the hosts above,
And still we sing the newborn King
His glory and his love.”
“A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.”
“A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.”
“A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.”
“A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.”
“A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.”
“A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.”
“A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.”
“A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time”
“A sonnet's glee may maketh the mind a little free from the clouds that hover above on a sickness spree.”
“A soothing lullaby, a golden potion, as sweet as honey, an ethereal salve that calms the racing heart and transports it to the shores of peace.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“A sophist and a Sufi. You are a sufisticated young woman.”
Source: Tajrish
“A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches