What is your favorite song title or quote from a song? I want to work a bunch of these into a multi-media collage-type quilt....and I need your help finding GREAT ones! You don't even have to like the song, as long as you love the title or great line or two from the lyrics! All eras and kinds of music are welcome! Please tell me the title of the song and who sang it (if you know) so I can keep a list for my records..... Thanks so much for helping me out!!!!

American Pie, Don McClean.....The players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield. This stands out for me cause I have kids in marching band.

This mornin, I shot 6 holes in my freezer
I think I got cabin fever

Jimmy Buffet, Boat Drinks

(It just started snowing - hope I don't get cabin fever!)

"Bridge over Troubled Waters" by Simon and Garfunkle and "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels (that goes back a long way!!)

All we are saying is give peace a chance

"let me check you for Ticks" Brad Paisley, very cute song!

Heartbreak Hotel
It's 5 O'clock Somewhere

"I Hope You Dance" by Leann Womack always makes me think of my girls. The lyrics to that song are incredible. "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood. "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers (a one hit wonder). "Let it Be", the Beatles.

Reeling in the Years (Steely Dan), Sunrise, Sunset, swiftly fly the years, one season following another (Fiddler on the Roof)

And the perfect one: Letting go by Suzy Bogguss:

She'll take the painting in the hallway,
The one she did in jr. high
And that old lamp up in the attic,
She'll need some light to study by.

She's had 18 years to get ready for this day
She should be past the tears, she cries some anyway

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting,
It's never easy letting go.

Mother sits down at the table
So many things she'd like to do
Spend more time out in the garden
Now she can get those books read too.

She's had 18 years to get ready for this day
She should be past the tears, she cries some anyway.

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting,
It's never easy letting go.

Oh oh letting go
There's nothing in the way now,
Oh letting go, there's room enough to fly
And even though, she's spent her whole life waiting,
It's never easy letting go.

"You're Gonna Miss This" by Trace Adkins
She was staring out that window, of that SUV
Complaining, saying I can't wait to turn 18
She said I'll make my own money, and I'll make my own rules
Mamma put the car in park out there in front of the school
Then she kissed her head and said I was just like you

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Before she knows it she's a brand new bride
In a one-bedroom apartment, and her daddy stops by
He tells her It's a nice place
She says It'll do for now
Starts talking about babies and buying a house
Daddy shakes his head and says Baby just slow down

'Cause You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Five years later there's a plumber workin' on the water heater
Dog's barkin', phone's ringin'
One kid's cryin', one kid's screamin'
She keeps apologizin'
He says they don't bother me
I've got 2 babies of my own
One's 36, one's 23
Huh, it's hard to believe

But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna miss this
Yeah, you're gonna miss this

I love I hope you dance it is really good song. and then cinderella is another good one that makes me cry. The guy that wrote cinderella song has a bunch of kids and a few of them are adopted. well his birth son was backing out of the driveway and ran over one of his adopted sisters. this was just a couple of years ago and this song actually had her in it. I am trying not to cry just thinking of the song and the sad sad story.

Tapestry- by Carole King. It came immediately to mind as a classic and good quilt song-- "My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue; an ever changing vision of the ever changing view. A wondrous woven magic, in bits of blue and gold; a tapestry to see and feel, impossible to hold...."

where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. we call it history. -- wicked the musical

celebrate we will - for life is short but sweet for certain.

i will go in this way, and find my own way out.

~~~both from dave matthews band

I don't know who wrote it but "It's a great day to be alive" is part of the lyrics don't know if it's the title.
Life is a Cabaret by Liza Minelli

Sad songs, Elton John

holes in what's left of my reason, holes in the knees of my blues, odds against me been increasing but I pulled through
Saint of Circumstance: The Grateful Dead

Steven Curtis Chapman-- Maria is her name written for her.

Uncle Kracker -- Smile

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed sing like bird
Dizzy in my head spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile

Off to see the wizard or Somewhere over the rainbow

Think these would both be beautiful quilts

It was a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater!

Edie

Friend, I will remember you,
Think of you, Pray for you.
And when another day is through,
I'll still be friends with you.

Friends With You, John Denver

Every new beginning is some other new beginning's end...

Dixie Chicks - she needs Wide open spaces, room to make her own mistakes.

All you need is love!
Raindrops keep falling on my head.
Yesterday when I was young.
I'm gonna miss her.
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key, I think that we should get together to try them out to see
It's too late now, baby
Old dogs and children and watermelon wine
Grandpa, tell me bout the good old days
Daddy's hands were soft and kind when I was crying, hard as steel when I'd done wrong
Last Date
Sweet Home Alabama
Teddy Bear
Our d-i-v-o-r-c-e becomes final today


Tell me when you want me to stop!!!

there is an old old song about a ball team in Woonsocket RI
Have been trying to find the words. Was from a movie, I believe, about the college town.

WOW!!!!! Thanks so much for the ideas and please----keep them coming! I am picturing a quilt or quilty-like paper collage (not sure which) where each block is inspired by a different quote--- one starting with each letter of the alphabet, excluding two, probably X and Z---so I have 24, set 4 x 6. Been quilting for about 25 years and want to try something different, so the paper collage idea may win out!

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.( Mary Poppins)

Great motto to live by. And I am not talking about medicine. ;)

"It's a Grand Night for Singing", To Dream the Impossible Dream. Singing In the Rain.

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. The Beatles The End

Teacherbailey, MY All time favorite was 'I found my Thrill on Blueberry Hill'. 'I can't stop loving you' is another one I still enjoy.
The 'Green, Green Grass of Home' has always been a favorite of mine.
'May I have this dance with you?' 'Suspicious Minds' by Elvis.
These are just a few to add to your list. Eiltcoq.

Smile, tho your heart is aching
Smile, even tho it's breaking

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss
a sigh is still a sigh
The fundamental things apply as time goes by

Sounds of Silence
Forever Young
You Are My Sunshine

I've always loved Puff the Magic Dragon

There are great patterns for bottles and jars and I am nursing an idea to include lyrics from Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle. I am also enamored with Rod Stewart's Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Both have vivid lyrics

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What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

That's what friends are for.
In good times and bad times I'll be on your side forever more.
That's what friends are for.

On a very old "single" of Tiny Kangaroo down sport, there is a song called Two little boys. It makes me cry everytime I hear it. Lyrics - two little boys had two little toys, one was a horse of tin - I can't remember anymore of them but then they go off to war and are on different sides and run into each other again and he lets his friend live. But my very favorite is "Gentle on My Mind" by Glen Campbell. A real 60's song.It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk, that makes me want to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch. Thanks Carreen

Peace of Mind by Boston

"I understand about indecision , and I don't care about gettin behind. People living in competition, all I want is to have some peace of mind."

This is my all-time favorite rock n roll song. it is about how so many people are caught up in climbing the corporate ladder that they forgot how to live and enjoy their lives.

Rock N Roll Band by Boston

:Rock N Roll band, everybody's waiting.
Get crazy, anticipating,
Love and music, Play, play play!"

This is a song that they wrote and sung when they were beginning to gain popularity. It was about how they felt as they became famous and people wanted to hear them.

My Girl- sunshine on a cloudy day...

Everybody loves somebody sometime...Dean Martin
Because she's mine-I walk the line....Johnny Cash
I thank God for unanswered prayers...Garth Brooks