Old Songs Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again... — Charlotte Alington Barnard
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
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. — Beau Bridges
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment. — John Fogerty
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
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
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
I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being… — Harry Connick, Jr.
People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my… — Billy Corgan
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender… — Tana French
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people… — Jeanne DuPrau
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to… — Jeanette Winterson
Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I… — Leon Redbone
You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You… — Ritu Ghatourey

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