- Memories
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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of your feelings.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
- Album
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- Nov 07, 2020
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a lot of insensitivity, especially as maybe as far as the ‘Africa' video goes. But the song was about a fantasy.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did my solo album, I put on a song that I'd planned for Toto that never made an album constructed from a great drum track with Jeff and a bass track with Mike and the guys loved it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever we play new material, eventually some of the songs become classics themselves. They can't become that unless you play them. Any new song is not going to go down as well as some of the old stuff, because obviously the old stuff the fans know inside out.
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- Nov 07, 2020