All Quotes

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
‐‐ Sydney Carter

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.
‐‐ Christine Lavin

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.
‐‐ Deana Carter

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
‐‐ Vanessa Paradis

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.
‐‐ Marketa Irglova

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
‐‐ Cecilia Bartoli

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.
‐‐ Jeff Mangum

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
‐‐ Kip Winger

The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.
‐‐ Ahmet Ertegun

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
‐‐ Ben Gibbard

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
‐‐ George Eliot

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
‐‐ Charlaine Harris

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
‐‐ Dave Winfield

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.
‐‐ Geoff Davis

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
‐‐ Laini Taylor

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
‐‐ John Dryden

The Sooners are my religion. I've been back to watch the games several times. I'm into all their sports. I'm a tremendous fan.
‐‐ Joshua Morrow

The sophisticates of Java, the traders of Sumatra, the peasants from the outer islands found no common ground. During siesta time from one to five, the Islamic group met separately, the Nationalist group met separately, the Federalist and Unitarians met separately.
‐‐ Sukarno

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
‐‐ David Antin

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.
‐‐ Jerry Ferrara

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
‐‐ David Chase

'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.
‐‐ Vincent Pastore

The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
‐‐ Sam Simon

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
‐‐ Rebecca Skloot