- Music
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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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- Gale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020