I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
quote by Neil Innes
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
The monkey and gorilla may claim kinship, but the monkey is a monkey and the gorilla is a gorilla.
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
quote by Matthew Sweet
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.
quote by Robert Strauss
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I like to think I'm less about rock and roll and more about songs. I think songwriting is a tradition that's older than rock and roll. I could live without rock and roll. I haven't got this sort of religious reverie for rock and roll. I think it's incredibly reactionary and boring.
The gorilla
The gorilla does what gorillas can
sits on a dung heap,
protecting it with its life
as if it belongs
to only him
and eats bananas
from its own republic
faster than they grow,
scratches for tics and lice,
swats some opponents
down like flies
scorches the plain
over and over again
and shakes its head
walking among the slain
not able to understand
where every thing has gone
and although it walks
on hind legs,
growls words as speech
and sometimes begs,
but one task
is beyond its reach:
the gorilla cannot
become human again.
[Reference: August 1968 by W.H. Auden.]
poem by Gert Strydom
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Gorilla and his beloved wife
This man was certainly fed up with the life and roamed like a stray dog.
One day he found in the Zoo the gorilla's cage is vacant.
Since that day he lived in the cage happily.
On a sunny Sunday he saw his wife came towards the cage.
'Oh! You resemble my so loved husband and he was disappeared a long time ago.' wife said.
She witnessed the gorilla cried and she gave him her handkerchief.
On her way back home she had a facial as she knows her husband would be at home soon.
* I heard that he says; 'We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.' Good luck to the land of opportunity! And guess who comes to the dinner with a gift of real democracy.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
You can sort of be married, you can sort of be divorced, you can sort of be living together, but you can't sort of have a baby.
quote by David Shire
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
quote by Jo Stafford
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Songwriting is my gift from God.
quote by Smokey Robinson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
quote by Brian Setzer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
quote by Gwen Stefani
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
quote by Charles King
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
quote by Krist Novoselic
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
quote by Janine Turner
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
quote by Christopher Cross
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
quote by Warren Zevon
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
quote by Sheryl Crow
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!