- Nothing
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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
- Booming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
- Fibers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanna do a song with Adele! Nobody gets Adele as a feature, so maybe I can. I hope she knows who I am!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020