- Matter
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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say when you're dealing with live musicians and musicality, the warmth of a live instrument brings a certain feel to a song that is really hard, sometimes, to get from synthesized instruments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Krit Wuz Here,' I had a record called 'Return Of 4eva' on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual 'Return Of 4eva' project, and 'Return Of 4eva' had a song called '4eva And A Day.' So it's like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.
- Nov 07, 2020
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I'd Rather Go Blind' was a song I did on an album with Joe Bonamassa called 'Don't Explain,' and I've always been such a huge, huge Etta James fan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen. I never got into any of his other music, but that song, to this day, is in my top three lyrical masterpieces of all time.
- Nov 07, 2020