Quotes of: Folk-songs Keyword

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

Hans Zimmer

The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.

James Taylor

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Konrad von Gesner

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Paul Stanley

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

Tyler James Williams

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

Nile Rodgers

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

Nancy Sinatra

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Paula Cole

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Peter R. Grant

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

Paul McCartney

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Peter Steele

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Ryan Cabrera

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Ryan Cabrera

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

Rebecca Ferguson

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Reba McEntire

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

Richard Marx

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Richard Marx

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

Steve Forbert

Every life has a sound. A voice to be heard. A song to be sung. A note to be played.

Suzette Hinton

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

Spike Jonze