"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox and written by Norman Gimbel, which was a number-one hit in 1973 for Roberta Flack. The song has been remade by numerous artists, most notably the Fugees whose rendition contributed to their Grammy Award-winning album, The Score.
Read more about Killing Me Softly With His Song: Disputed Origins, Original Recordings, Then The Roberta Flack Version, The Fugees Version, Other Versions, Cover Versions in Other Languages
Famous quotes containing the words killing, softly and/or song:
“The time I kill is killing me.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“And God would bid His warfare cease,
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy peace,
A peace of Heaven with Hell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk- happy.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)