- Love
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Cumming was such a fun guy to watch. I remember he has a song in the first 'Spy Kids' movie, and when Danny Elfman came to set, they were working on the song.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.
- Attention Spans
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- Nov 07, 2020