#song

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#get well #go #grateful #i #out

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#broad #cable #cars #city #excitement

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. ↗

— Amy Ray

#being #career #country #create #front

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#life #music #song #start #sweet

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#how #i #knew #proof #religion

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#black #bring #day #how #i

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#entire #even #note #single #song

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. ↗

— Noel Redding

#fat #had #i #mattress #outlet

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically. ↗

— Noel Redding

#day #first #songs #three #through