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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
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it. -- Dolly Parton
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 old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing. -- Billy Corgan
No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance. -- Fred Schneider
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't. -- Bonnie Tyler
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... -- Annie Dillard
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. -- Five for Fighting
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
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
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
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
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 to May. -- Jimmy Hill
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 behind the times. -- Johnny Thunders
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 most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. -- James Weldon Johnson
I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.' -- Buck Owens
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 songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material. -- 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, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words. -- Robert Jones Burdette
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 the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas. -- Tom Waits
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. -- Pete Seeger
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. -- Beau Bridges
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. -- William Butler Yeats
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. -- William Osler
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. -- Andy Taylor
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. -- Fred Frith
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age. -- Max Stirner
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! -- Charles Dickens
That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning. -- Ellen Page
And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites. -- Dan Hicks
I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in. -- Paul Weller
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played. -- Jeff Tweedy
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. -- Andrew Fletcher
I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin. -- Mary Butts
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 will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things. -- Jamie Tworkowski
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. -- Mose Allison
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I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old. -- Sondre Lerche
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. -- James Weldon Johnson
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. -- Rick Springfield
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs. -- Richard Marx
If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old. -- Bradley Cooper
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old. -- Dwyane Wade
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear. -- Noel Gallagher
I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great. -- Lucinda Williams
My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. -- Dolly Parton
I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold. -- Neil Young
I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.' -- Hunter Hayes
I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need. -- Kathleen Hanna
For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old -- Loreena McKennitt
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs. -- Brandon Flowers
Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story. -- Ben Lovett
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 and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old. -- John McEuen
I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks. -- Robert Plant
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! -- John Keats
If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song -- Oscar Isaac
You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. -- John McCain
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true. -- Robert Englund
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. -- Miles Davis
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless. -- Gabrielle Zevin
I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. -- Joe Cocker
My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do. -- Keith Morris
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box. -- Ludacris
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. -- Neil Innes
I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone. -- George Strait
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. -- Matisyahu
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On -- Tom Waits
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. -- Carson McCullers
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays. -- Jenna Dewan
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it. -- Johnny Cash
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that. -- Marc Almond
Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song! -- Becky G
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git. -- Marc Almond
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s. -- Ziggy Marley
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad. -- Trisha Yearwood
Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields. -- Johnny Cash
I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It's called "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'm Not Raking 'Til Spring." -- Steven Wright
And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen. -- Diane Duane
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet! -- Mitchell Zuckoff

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