- Good
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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
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell young film-makers, 'Find the song that only you can sing.' It doesn't just come to you. It's trial and error and disappointment before you find, slowly but surely, the confidence to express your film-making identity.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.
- Glued
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently, I had some powerful magnets glued into the lower horn of a few of my guitars. This holds a metal slide in place so I can easily get to it and put it back, even in the middle of a song.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Not Afraid of the Police' is the first song I wrote and recorded since moving back to Los Angeles. It's a loud-pop, crazy-guitar, big-harmony song with all the police sirens created by guitars and ADA flangers.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020