- Day
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.
- Good Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with my time in India with my mother as well as leaving her in India during the monsoon season to visit my family in N.Y. It really was a dream come true when I was given the opportunity to shoot in India.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020