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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the only one that's joined in the Maro Itoje song, to be honest with you!
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- Nov 07, 2020
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?
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- Nov 07, 2020