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JAMES C. DOBSON
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'O...
DANIEL ADAIR I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.
GEORGE THOROGOOD We just really want to get in because we know if we get to do that song (Shackles), we have a really...
AMY WILLIAMS
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS You hold substance in my psyche
SARAHBETH PURCELL
I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your ... MICHAEL JACKSON He was finishing up the album when this song came into play. We knew it was a magical song, but we d...
FLETCHER FOSTER The essay portion is not used. It is not even given a thought. We can't use it because we have no da...
LARRY WATERS
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Storytelling is at the heart of what we do, ... We both strive to capture and reflect the full range...
ED BENSON Aaron, a lot of people probably would not attempt a song like that. The reality is that's a song tha...
BARENAKED LADIES Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing ...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN He nailed it when he said a good song makes people think, move and feel. That's what we try to do wi...
CLAUDIO SANCHEZ I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a...
KIESZA Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I...
JOE ELLIOTT Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL
Everyone has a gift.It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec... SARAH DESSEN The song is the center ; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything ...
CAROLE KING Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song w...
JOE ELLIOTT
Because the song is us and the song is her and this time I’m going to use her name. Norah, Norah, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and j...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Research has a dirty name, ... because people think you can't research art. One of the common fallac...
DAN BRADLEY
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song. SAMMY CAHN
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. JOAN BAEZ
My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotag... RICKY MARTIN
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma... PETE SEEGER
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the ang... NICK CAVE
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be pe... YOUNG THUG I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they...
BILLY ECKSTINE
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... CHARLI XCX
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Th... MOBY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live i... DAVID LEVITHAN I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in ...
ROBERT HUNTER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of charac... W. H. AUDEN A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well. Let them sing it loud and lo...
HELEN GRAY CONE
I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a s... DAVID COOK
See the world for what it is.BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We don't actually have Billy Idol in our show. But we do have what you might call a Billy Idol subst...
CHAD BEGUELIN We took a song that we knew and we got creative with it.
GINA DEPAOLI
He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i... KATE DICAMILLO It's our nation's song, it's a song that is deeply rooted in America's heritage. I think it is reall...
JULIE BRUHN 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw wi...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
It does not matter how sweet you can sing a song of love. You must know how to dance along with it. ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public o... ED SHEERAN
To become a fan is not just hear a song, you have to feel it. JON BON JOVI
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. RITA ORA We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have ...
CHRIS WEDGE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts. OUIDA
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN
Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it wi... CHRISTOPHER LEE
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do... SENECA The stakes were definitely higher on that song. We knew it was special because it was so autobiograp...
EMILY ROBISON I try not to think back on it too much, because I know there's nothing we can do about it. I definit...
ELI NICHOLS Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO
A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we reall...
BRANDON THOMAS
Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It ha... NEIL GAIMAN
Life is a magical game so play it with love. DEBASISH MRIDHA Lucy is such a sweet dog, and so good with kids, it made writing the song easy.
LISA RIETHER Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you he... DAVID FRIEDMAN To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifyin...
BARRY MANILOW We knew [the song] was special because it was so autobiographical.
EMILY ROBISON Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public ... ALEX KAPRANOS I don't know what to think about this, whether it's a serious problem or not. What it seems to me is...
CRAIG DAVIS
I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world;
And, for becau... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II
Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's ol... BECKY G
