- Hell
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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
- Honey
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song may lean more heavily on one than the other, but they all have all three pieces.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a song for every moment. I don't think there's one right love song.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.
- Good Song
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- Nov 07, 2020