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“The song paved my way into becoming who I am today and fans have been asking for the video”
Aline Gahongayire (born 1986) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aline Gahongayire’s Upcoming Album for Late This YearKT PRESS(June 3, 2021)
“I am a huge, huge fan of Whoopi Goldberg. I watched everything she did when I was younger, and Sister Act (1992) just brings me joy. When it's on, I can't stop singing or dancing. I can't watch it sat down, really. My husband might even have a video from the other week of me singing a song from Sister Act at my mom's house. It just brings me such joy.”
Wunmi Mosaku (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Western musics from the 80s. Tears For Fears is my eternal theme song!!”
Kazuki Takahashi (1961–2022) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shonen Jump magazine – April 29, 2002, issue 20.
“Google uses the work of journalists to sell advertising. Then it takes Daddy Bear's share of the profits and justifies its gluttony on the basis that it drives traffic back to the newspaper's own site. This is like a musician stealing a song, recording it, and excusing their crime on the basis that the illegal cover version may draw attention to the original.”
Tim Luckhurst (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That was my first battle with male authority. I discovered after a while in The Avengers that I was earning less than the cameraman. I made a bit of a song and dance about it and demanded more. I was ahead of the game, in that respect, because nobody backed me up. There was no sisterhood. In those days, you were on your own.”
Diana Rigg (1938–2020) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Diana Rigg Reflects on Road to Parity, Avengers and Game of Thrones Roles", Variety (2 April 2019)
“My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.”
“The song seeks to thank the great leadership of Rwanda which restored the values our country inherited from our ancestors before being trashed by colonialism. One such value is patriotism which I call upon Rwandans to safeguard,”
Francoise Uwumukiza (born 1973) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SEVENTEEN SONGS AND COUNTING: LAWMAKER SURPRISES WITH MUSIC TALENT KT Press (November 15, 2020)
“Before outing every song, we would always have rehearsals at home and it was beautiful,”
Francoise Uwumukiza (born 1973) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: SEVENTEEN SONGS AND COUNTING: LAWMAKER SURPRISES WITH MUSIC TALENT KT Press (November 15, 2020)
“Sometimes I forget. I get lost in the bassline of a song or the smell of lemongrass. At those times I'm just like everyone else. Then my mind asks, 'Why are you so happy? Isn't there something you're forgetting?' And then I search and search and search, and I remember, oh yes, I was raped.”
Kopano Matlwa (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most people still know me from the dubbing,” “But I have been working hard to revitalize the recital, to do classical things, especially the American art song.”
Marni Nixon (1930–2016) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From shadows to spotlight: Acclaimed soprano Marni Nixon, 76, writes her memoir The seattle times (November 3, 2006)
“Poor swallow, as thou glidest by, Thou dost renew thy plaintive cry;— Is this thine only song? Dost thou remember the sad day When Tereus stole thy heart away, And did thee grievous wrong?”
Pamphilus of Alexandria (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Reed of Pan (1922), p. 4
“Alone again, she had invented touchingly naïve myths to console herself: a leaf whirling in the wind, a butterfly whether black or alive with color, the hooting of an owl or the graceful song of a nightingale, everything seemed pregnant with meaning. (chapter 8)”
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will not think of themes like these! It made Anacreon’s song divine: He served—but served Polycrates— A tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen.”
Polycrates (574–522 BC) said by 522 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But once people have had a huge glut of progress, they'll get bored. They'll start talking to the wind and flowers and stones again and listening to the song of the stars.”
Þórbergur Þórðarson (1888–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We [Mavin] are moving from the traditional Friday release date to Wednesdays and Thursdays because there are no more Fridays [without another artist dropping a song].”
“Lunga Tubu's voice coming from the waves, singing a Pavarotti song," he muses wistfully that "maybe one day Pavarotti will adopt him”
“Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost . ...Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.”
Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cassilda's Song", sts. 2, 4 in (1895), The Play, act 1, sc. 2
“Over many great races an enthusiastic movement seems at a certain period to sweep, carrying them during a few years to success, alike in arms and song, till the- stream sinks back into its old channel, and the nation continues a career, honourable, it may be, but wanting in the peculiar ardour of its great age.”
Raymond Wilson Chambers (1874–1942) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widsith: A Study in Old and English Heroic Legend (1912), Ch. 1
“With leaden foot Time creeps along While Delia is away: With her, nor plaintive was the song, Nor tedious was the day.Ah, envious Pow’r! reverse my doom; Now double thy career, Strain ev’ry nerve, stretch ev’ry plume, And rest them when she’s here!”
Richard Jago (1715–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Absence" in Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1784), p. 171
“Well, I know it's kinda late; I hope I didn't wake you. But what I gotta say can't wait. I know you'd understand.Every time I tried to tell you The words just came out wrong. So, I'll have to say "I love you" in a song.”
Jim Croce (1943–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord do what you want with me," this is the song that gave me courage to go out of the bush and to go back to the town to identify the women who were displaced, the women who were traumatized.”
Angélique Namaika (born 1967) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sr Angélique Namaika giving hope to women in DRC (12 February 2014) Vatican Radio
“When, comrades, we thrill to the message of speaker in highway or hall, The voice of the poet is reaching the silenter poet in all: And again, as of old, when the flames are to leap up the turrets of Wrong, Shall the torch of the New Revolution be lit from the words of a Song!”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Poet", st. 6, in An Austral Garden of Verse (1913), p. 91
“Yet Saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, ‘How long?’ And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song.”
Samuel John Stone (1839–1900) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Church's One Foundation", in Lyra Fidelium (1866)
“Now there’s ane end of ane old song.”
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (1663–1730) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Scottish Parliament, after signing the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union (May 1707), the end of Scottish sovereignty. Cited in The Lockhart Papers (1817), vol. 1, p. 223
“It doesn't feel like it's just originating from my brain. It feels like I'm following an invisible thread of intuition, from one choice to the next... maybe I don't even fully understand once I've written it, but it just feels right. And I just trust that. And then over time, it reveals its layers of meaning to me. That's a mark of what I feel is a good song. It keeps me wanting to play it.”
Adrianne Lenker (born 1991) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Exclaim!, March 21, 2024
“I enjoyed the sound of our voices following one another. Sounded like a favorite song from the radio they no longer play, so when you hear it, you remember how things were. (p144)”
Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With Cannibal Corpse, it’s always a ‘song first’ kind of thing for me. Some of the side projects I’ve done have allowed me to stretch out a little bit more [in terms of style], but Cannibal is really about being a big, heavy rhythm machine, and stepping out too much might detract from that.”
Alex Webster (1931–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It got to the point where it entered global politics. That's something I never imagined, and I never heard [Senator] actually say these words, but he said this about us: "[Cannibal Corpse] is deplorable. They have a song about having sex with a severed head." I wish I could have heard him say that shit. I'd love that sound bite.”
Alex Webster (1931–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“["Your Dog"] comes from a feeling of being paralyzed in a relationship to the point where you feel like you are a pawn in someone else's world. The song and the video are meant to show someone breaking away and taking action, but at the same time, it's only a quick burst of motivation. It's a moment of strength amidst a long period of weakness.”
Soccer Mommy (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before we began to play there was a crowd of about 300 in there, but in the second song 'Necrolust' we began to throw around those pig heads. Only 50 were left. [...] If someone doesn't like blood and rotten flesh thrown in their face they can FUCK OFF, and that's exactly what they do.”
Dead (musician) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evil: Mayhem. In: Jon Kristiansen: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries. Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 290.
“It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.”
William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath flown The story how ye fell; Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb.”
Theodore O'Hara (1820–1867) first seen 1847 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bivouac of the Dead" (1847), st. 12
“In the Macy Gray song, the walls collapse and the madness gives one possibility. I’m thinking about the buckets filling up, slowly, drip by drip, and eventually overflowing, spilling out and filling the whole space. And then the walls crack and suddenly it’s open. Suddenly, there’s light and possibility.”
Dineo Seshee Bopape (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This song is a love story, but I wanted the video to reflect cultural identity and expression through movement”
Amantle Brown (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always went back to the moment I wrote Black Mampatile. I was alone then, not waiting for anyone’s validation. I remembered to dream again. I always wanted to go back to the girl who wrote that song. I prayed to God to get me back to that girl”
Amantle Brown (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The final decision will be decided by the company within a week whether I will release a classic tarab song, or will wait for Eid after Ramadan and release an album. It has been a long time since I released an album with my combination.”
Samira Said (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I’ve forgotten my heart’s song, they’ve always sung it back to me”
Masasa Mbangeni (born 1987) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Making magic with actor Masasa Mbangeni,16 October 2022,by Ayanda Radebe
“But it is particularly encouraging to perform a song with a touch that can be equated to such great artists considering the efforts and investments that artists like Rihanna and Drake put into their work.”
“So when I wrote that song, everywhere I went to perform in any refugee camp people, would cry and always sit and talk. Because as you live, you cannot keep your problems to yourself.”
Fatu Gayflor (born 1966) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change using music to heal in Southwest Philly, By By Elisabeth Perez-Luna, retrieved on June 23, 2014
“I wrote the song from my heart”
Abby Chams (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love. It is a love song. Love is the inspiration. It talks about somebody you truly love and any small thing they do simply magnifies to a higher frequency.”
Lydia Jazmine (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who know me are aware of the fact that I rarely do collabos. However, having travelled and interacted with many artists I feel the need to do so for my fans and personal growth. I should be releasing a collaborative song by the end of the year.”
Rema Namakula (born 1991) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Uganda's Eddy Kenzo, Rema Namakula nominated for Young Achievers Awards, By Lucy Ilado, retrieved on 3 Aug 2018
“They put a hood upon his head And bound it with a thong. Then—England lost a ball of lead And Ireland lost a song.”
Leonard Feeney (1897–1978) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Gifford Girl", In Towns and Little Towns (1927), p. 64
“All paths lead to you Where e'er I stray, You are the evening star At the end of day. All paths lead to you Hill-top or low, You are the white birch In the sun's glow. All paths lead to you Where e'er I roam. You are the lark-song Calling me home!”
Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff (1886–1967) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All Paths Lead To You", Quiet Waters (1921), p. 76
“Sometimes I'm right, and I can be wrong. My own beliefs are in my song. A butcher, a banker, a drummer, and then Makes no difference what group I'm in. I am everyday people! (yeah yeah)”
Sly Stone (1943–2025) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Everyday People (1968) · Official video at YouTube
“Even if you don’t like a song, it should be your personal opinion.”
Skales (born 1991) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I didn’t overreact by walking out of an interview – Skales. 27 May 2018, Punch Newspaper.
“The , as it is sometimes called, lives in damp woods, where it can find plenty of insects. It catches them on the wing, as well as picking them off plants and trees. Its colouring is grey above with black streaks on its head; its breast is yellow, with a row of black marks across it, set like a ’s . Its song is louder than that of most s, but very sweet and clear.”
Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (1857–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Usually, when I’m rappin’, I’m creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.– Tyler, the Creator”
Tyler, the Creator (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Football has its ups and downs; just like the popular song by Kenny Rogers, there are challenges in every aspect of life, and so in football.”
Peter Rufai (1963–2025) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Goalkeepers do more than keep ball out of goal – Rufai 4 October 2024, Punch (Nigeria).