All Quotes

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
‐‐ John Burroughs

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.
‐‐ John Wozniak

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
‐‐ Kevin James

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.
‐‐ Robert Hunter

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.
‐‐ St. Vincent

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.
‐‐ Martha Reeves

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
‐‐ David Bowie

A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.
‐‐ Richard Rodgers

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.
‐‐ Russell Smith

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.
‐‐ Rico Love

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song 'Yesterday.' Listen to the lyrics.
‐‐ Chuck Berry

A song is anything that can walk by itself.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.
‐‐ John Darnielle

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.
‐‐ Glen Hansard

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.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.
‐‐ Jimmie Davis

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.
‐‐ Brittany Howard

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.
‐‐ Keith Urban

A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched.
‐‐ Thalia

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.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
‐‐ J. D. Souther

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

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.
‐‐ Sheryl Crow

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
‐‐ Dar Williams

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
‐‐ Norah Jones

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
‐‐ Ira Gershwin

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
‐‐ Bryan Adams

A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
‐‐ Montserrat Caballe

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
‐‐ David Whyte

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
‐‐ George Santayana

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
‐‐ Sophocles

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
‐‐ Eileen Caddy

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
‐‐ Edward Young

A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
‐‐ John Locke

A soup manufacturer uses the same colors and design on every label to catch the consumer's eye and assure her that she's getting brand-name quality, whether she's buying bean soup or corn chowder or cream of tomato.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
‐‐ John Oliver