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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
- Nov 07, 2020
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I haven't released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don't feel I have been completely away from music. I have been away on a mainstream level, of course. But releasing a single this way - on my own independent record label - is more fun.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020