Lullabies Quotes

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

Do you want me to sing to you? I'll sing all night if it will keep the bad dreams away.

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. “Tick, tock.” “Tick, tock,” I agree softly. “It’s time for bed. Tick, tock. Go to sleep.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

There's something kind of wonderful about men singing lullabies.

The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.