- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was travelling a lot, during the release of 'Dilbar,' to various countries, and the song would be played at random places like lounges, coffee shops, streets, and I realised the song had reached levels that was beyond India.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Kamariya' is a wonderfully composed song. The concept for the video is so fresh, and it's unlike anything I have done before.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was told that the girl I play in the song 'Kamariya' will be from Bhopal and very rural but with spunk, I was up for the challenge and felt really ecstatic that I was donning an entirely new look.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As 'Dilbar' has become a huge hit internationally, including Middle East, we have taken the song and re-composed it, written Arabic and Moroccan lyrics, and we recorded, with me singing with Fnaire.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to sit in Big Bird's nest with Big Bird and sing the song, 'Sing. Sing a song. Sing out loud,' that was my crowning achievement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's 2019. People aren't going to shows to watch a band play the song exactly like the record.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget the dance number that I shot with Anushka. The choreography involved a lot of intricate dance moves. I'm at least 7 inches shorter than Anushka, so I had to wear the highest heels I've ever worn in my life; throughout the song, I even injured my knee a couple of times.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so excited to do 'Slow' with Matoma. The song is lyrically so beautiful, and the production brings it all to life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020