- Obsessed
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
- Jerusalem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
- Exodus
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020