“I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked”
Eugene Field
“There's no insecurity about my song writing. I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.”
Johnny Cash
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.”
John Lennon
“I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, "Hey, maybe I wrote that."”
Stephen Wright
“Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow."”
Billy Corgan
“Do you want a song of glory? Well, I'm f---ing screaming at you, ... It's our time to shine through the down/Glorified by what is ours/We've fallen in love/We've fallen in love.”
Bert McCracken