Fascination Song Quotes & Sayings

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that. — Big Sean

I liked to play at tragedy, but she drank it out of her baby bottle. — Bryn Greenwood

Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with. — Harriet Lerner

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance. — Geoffrey O'Brien

My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues. — Mavis Staples

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — Willem De Kooning

When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto. — Lauren DeStefano

I've always had a fascination with pirates. You know, I've written a song completely inspired by I want this to feel like pirates, you know, fighting together, made a music video about it, yada, yada. — Lindsey Stirling

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. — Leo Durocher

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. — Peter Thiel

The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever. — Nellie Melba