You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. —Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby More about this quote Tags: love songs overrated Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell. —Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed More about this quote Tags: time memory music smell songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song. —John Mellencamp More about this quote Tags: music heart head songs rock and roll legs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. —Henry Giles More about this quote Tags: memory music songs sermons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: history heart sorrow tears unhappiness slavery songs relief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: music listening radio songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: love power change songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: prayer energy songs dancing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email