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They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

All my songs are where I am.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.