- Problems
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
- Impress
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.
- Rolling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX... I would love to work with him as well... I met him in Atlanta; I went to one of his concerts; I would love to do a song with him. I respect him and really like his music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.
- Little Girls
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020