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I also plan to release a ballads collection.
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song .
I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.
Walk through life always with a song
My very life shall be a song.
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
A Beautiful Melody
- for you -
September 17, 2016
I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.
Most people know my music but will never read my books.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
My songs are just little letters to me.
I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.
One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."
Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.
Lyrics are really important for me.
I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.
I have a lot of unknown songs.
The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.
A song is the most intangible thing in the world.
I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.
I love story songs because I've always loved books.
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
Sing songs that none have sung
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
Music is the language of memory
When I write a book ... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
I don't know where my songs come from ... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
A book, the greatest gift ever
We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Maybe songs only need to be sung once, recorded, and passed along.
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!
Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing
with the air.
Listen little Songkeeper, the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song.
I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
It was a time of chaos, of bombs and floods, when love songs streamed from the radios and wept down the streets. Music sustained weddings, births, rituals, work, marching, boredom, confrontation and death; music and stories, even in times like these, were a refuge, a passport, everywhere.
Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
Without a song, each day would be a century.
Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words fail. Its power lies in the region of the inexpressible; it tells us what the words cannot.
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love ... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.
Songs are all but a branch of the yearning for union; branch and root are never comparable.
Close your lips, and open the window of the heart; by that way be conversant with the spirits.
My songs are like my kids.
LOVE is a friendship set to music
Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.
There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read
A song of love makes the spirit dance with joy.
I learn my songs by ear.
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
A book is like the beauty of a true love, timeless.
If I write the song, I get to name it.
The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.
I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.
A book is sacred gift.
The melody of music!
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
A really good poem is full of music.
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
Songs live longer than kingdoms.
So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
If music is
the story
of our lives,
what song
did they
sing
for me?
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.
This book came to me for review, but when I observed its count of pages I quietly dropped it behind the piano.
CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY By
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.