- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a song with somebody else in mind, it's putting the cart before the horse. The way I write best is when I allow the song to tell me what it wants to be.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
- Cater
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020