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- Nov 07, 2020
Song Quotes
The feeling behind every song.
These song quotes emphasize sincerity as the key to a performance that actually reaches an audience, along with the idea that a song can capture a live moment as it happens. One entry recalls a song tied to an early anti-drug campaign, showing how songs can carry a specific message. Related picks continue in our Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That's my friend, but every time I'm around her, I get shy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song is different.
- Good Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.
- Empires
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song is like a painting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
- Sing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.'
- Nov 07, 2020
The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020