Crazy Arms' is one of those songs that can get crushed beneath its own weight. It's kind of like 'Orange Blossom Special' or 'Rocky Top' or 'Crazy.' But when you go back to the original interpretation, you hear it in a new way.
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
I would say Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' is up there - it's one of the best.
'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
Certainly the most requested song in performance is 'Love is Here to Stay,' and that is a favorite for me.
'Love Shack' is such an eternal kind of song; at karaoke, people do it.
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?
