3,653 Quotes About Song

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.