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  • My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Crazy Quotes
  • Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Song Quotes , Dark Quotes
  • I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Song Quotes , Book Quotes
  • I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Song Quotes , Teenager Quotes
  • I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Licht Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • I would say a great song [is where] you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you want to dance and you feel invincible when you listen to that song. A good song I think you can listen to but you get tired of it really fast.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aino Jawo Quotes , Song Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Song Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Song Quotes , Children Quotes
  • If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Song Quotes , Artist Quotes