Al Yankovic Quotes, Song Quotes, Ideas Quotes

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Song Quotes , Hands Quotes

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Music Quotes , Song Quotes

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.

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I'm a human being just like you are. And I hurt and love just like everybody else, and people tend to forget that. I think I'm one of the friendliest celebrities around, because I'll stop to talk to anybody who recognizes me. I don't have a negative bone in my body. That's why I could care less about any gossip. It doesn't interest me. I'd rather sit down and write a song.

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Tags : Al B. Sure! Quotes , Song Quotes , Hurt Quotes

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Song Quotes

Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.

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Tags : A.C. Newman Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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Light up the darkness

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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Song Quotes , War Quotes

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Keys Quotes

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Song Quotes , Silence Quotes

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes

To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Song Quotes , Listening Quotes

The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Song Quotes

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Song Quotes , Sleep Quotes