- Me
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
- Defines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
- Consternation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Kaanta Laga' was offered to me, I was in college, doing my engineering course. I did the shooting of the song for some pocket money. I never imagined it to become such a huge hit.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a promise to myself to write songs I liked. I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter, and I need to be able play every song by myself on guitar. No matter what the production ends up being on the record, I've got to be able to go out and sell it all on my own. It's about connection.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020