Every song is like a painting.
Dick Dale

I'm about to sing the song for the future.
Stephanie Mills

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E. Y. Harburg

I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
Mahalia Jackson

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
Robert Goulet

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
Roy Ayers

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
Theodore Bikel

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Barry Gibb

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
Francis Scott Key

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
Adam Jones

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
John Lee Hooker

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
Leon Redbone

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.
Jerry Harrison

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.
Helen Reddy

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
Graham Nash