Best song & humans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.”

Knows Humans Mean Desire Song Human Beings Sadness Despair Longing Hopelessness Faith In Love

Author:Ron Pope

“Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.”

Thinking Humans Important Facts Care Song Simple Brain Opinion Trump Periods Easier Important Things Don't Care I Don't Care Melody Human Brain

Author:Ryan Tedder

“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”

Way Writing Humans Made Form Song Realizing February

Author:Dar Williams

“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.”

Humans Heart Self Spirit Song Speak Born Human Beings Alive Self Esteem Pride Self Love Happenings Strikes Esteem Uplifting Quests Entitled Human Spirit Greatest Love Popular Song

Author:Robert J. White

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.”

People Humans May Night Song Wife Baby Arms Activity Findings Meaningful Significance Dishes Insignificant Washing Human Activity Affirming Meaningful Song

Author:Leonard Cohen

“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.”

People Humans Light Action Song Interest My Own Space Responsibility Darkness Conditions Responsible Envy Neighbor Invention Candle Human Condition Being Responsible Cursing

Author:Karl Hess

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?”

Want Feels Humans Mean Hard Song Disease Communicate Pops Hard Things Pop Song

Author:Zola Jesus

“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.”

Thinking Years Humans Littles Character Song Humanity House Bits Perfect Our Lives Little Bit Relation Relate Human Relations Nudge

Author:Corey Taylor

“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.”

“Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Body Young Song Too Much Written Fascinated Human Body Paranoid Morbid Hypochondriac

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.”

Thinking Humans Two Body Song Space Fields Bones Flesh Obsessed Visuals Two Things Countryside Anatomy Open Spaces

Author:Ellie Goulding

“All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.”

Firsts Humans Has Beens Song Lips Sincere Syllables

Book:The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

Source: The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

“I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.”

Humans Song Written Silent Extremes Alex

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”

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Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best about humans, and there are not many other things besides this, is that humans make culture. If you're an artist, a big part of folk is noticing what other people are doing and incorporating it and changing it - the way that songs warp and change over time.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Bigs Form Artist Song Culture Folks Noticing Folk Music Warp Incorporating Changes Over Time

Author:Will Sheff

“Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Writing Humans Kind Art Self Night Song Effort Enemy Tomorrow Satisfaction True You Self-satisfaction Domesticity

Author:Paul McCartney

“I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.”

Thinking Humans Christian Song Stuff Struggle Elements Typical Theocracy Realness

Author:Matt Smith

“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.”

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Author:Jack Johnson

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