Al Yankovic Quotes, Song Quotes, Ideas Quotes

I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

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Tags : Alan Parsons Quotes , Sports Quotes , Song Quotes

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Song Quotes , People Quotes

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Song Quotes , Choices Quotes

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

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Tags : Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes , Song Quotes , Prayer Quotes

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

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Song Quotes , Thinking Quotes

You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Song Quotes , Spring Quotes

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

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Tags : Aaron Tippin Quotes , Song Quotes , Feel Better Quotes

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Music Quotes , Song Quotes

I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of me. And a lot of these lyrics are metaphors for specific life situations that I've been through, and in most cases, the struggles. Something about human beings wearing sadness heavily on their sleeve inspires me to make something uplifting about the situation.

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Tags : Aaron Bruno Quotes , Uplifting Quotes , Song Quotes

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Life Quotes , Song Quotes

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Song Quotes , Heart Quotes

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

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Tags : Alan Lomax Quotes , Song Quotes , Land Quotes

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Song Quotes

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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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Clever Quotes

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Heart Quotes