“ Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. ”
- Emma Lazarus- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
- 2.3K
“ For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing. ”
- Tony Benn- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. ”
- C. T. Studd- Copy
- 194
“ She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers — three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 306
“ I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ”
- Jim Cole- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When Laura Branigan recorded one of my songs, I went to Hollywood and thought I could write those kinds of songs. But I didn't want to. ”
- David Friedman- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. ”
- David Friedman- Copy
- 3.1K
“ And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems. ”
- Brian Moore- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. ”
- Bruce Cockburn- Copy
- 530
“ John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. ”
- Billy Bragg- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide. ”
- Ira Glasser- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one. ”
- Diana Krall- Copy
- 3K
“ Throughout history, the leaders of countries have been very particular of what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs. ”
- Pete Seeger- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it. ”
- Neil Young- Copy
- 3K
“ I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I thought I'd get a good education and do some acting at the same time. ”
- Ben McKenzie- Copy
- 1.2K
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