#song

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #bird #call #destroyed #gone

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#beatles songs #dreams #gone #i #invent

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#i #just #keep #like #never

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. ↗

— Frankie Valli

#comes #contemporary #doing #i #knocks

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. ↗

— Ville Valo

#away #been #best #cathartic #everyday

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it. ↗

— Ville Valo

#chord #combination #covering #covers #heart

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#formula #i #me #now #play

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #bring #coming #daughters #grandfathers