- Me
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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
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to release a song that could actually touch someone and help them through a tough time.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.
- Nov 07, 2020
They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Valentine's Day, I wrote my crush a song and had it professionally recorded. I never released it, though, because I wanted it to be a song just for her. I thought it would be more special that way.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big Taylor Swift fan. I really like her song 'Mean.'
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main song I listened to with the 'Firebird' books was 'Breath of Life' by Florence + the Machine.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'
- Nov 07, 2020