- 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
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I Want It That Way' is a feelgood song. It's happy, easy to sing along with, and everybody knows it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Get Hurt,' we wanted to see where else we could go with the band. We thought it was time to change things up a bit. The song itself is similar to the feeling of a wreck you see coming, but long past the point you can avoid it.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020