Old Song Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again...
— Charlotte Alington Barnard
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The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane…
— Frances Densmore
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The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations…
— Geronimo
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
— Beau Bridges
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In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December…
— Jimmy Hill
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
— Charlotte Alington Barnard
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying…
— Johnny Thunders
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I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I…
— Buck Owens
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I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
— Neil Young
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If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want…
— Avicii
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Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
— Frankie Avalon
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I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
— John Fogerty
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old…
— Merle Haggard
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the…
— Meinrad Craighead
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I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music,…
— Robert Jones Burdette
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I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
— Charles Stuart Calverley
Who Wrote These Old Song Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 42 Old Song Quotes, led by these top contributors: