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Old Songs Quotes
What performers say about returning to their earlier work.
Musicians rarely leave old songs behind entirely, and these quotes explain why: comfort with familiar material, new arrangements, or simply a story that needs an established tune. Songs are tied closely to feeling, so also see our Emotion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
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We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
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Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
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And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.
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I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
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I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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