Quotes of: Old-songs Keyword

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Brian Wilson

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

Andrae Crouch

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Branford Marsalis

A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age.

New Zealander

He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.

Spanish

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Hesketh Pearson

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.

French

When I eat your bread, I sing your song.

German

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

German

You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.

Korean

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Swedish

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good ol...

Kurt Vonnegut

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.

Chinese

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.

Congolese

Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or ...

Anansi Boys

Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going to abandon a wounded, or struggling marriage. There is...

Song of Songs the book for daughters

We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too late for me to skip to the next song. Like, maybe when you're dying, you actually want to hear something really upbeat.

This Song Will Save Your Life

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that m...

Nate Ruess