If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

I can't say no. But I did say, "OK. But have another song just in case."

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

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