- People
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tune 'All My Friends,' we recorded because our friend who wrote the song, Scott Boyer, passed way, and Gregg Allman had passed and he had recorded the song on his first solo record.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020