- Time
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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.
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- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
- Lyrics
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- Nov 07, 2020
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
- Spring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020