- Perfect
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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
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted a song you can listen to before the party, at the party, and after the party.
- Heavier
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget, I was talking to the singer in one of the heavier rock bands I was in, and it was like a screaming band, and I was like, ‘Man, why don't we make a song that's like ‘Let's Celebrate!.'
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, one summer I was visiting my sister in U.S.A., and I learned how to play the rhythm of 'The Cup' song, which is from the movie 'Pitch Perfect' where Anna Kendrick plays this song.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Cup' song did give a huge push, and after that, a lot of Internet happened. In the meantime, I was auditioning for many things, and 'Karwan' happened.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.
- Hood
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Can't Stop' was the first song we did. We didn't try to reach and be too 'hood:' It's hip-hop-influenced, but Miley's a pop singer, and she's going to have country in there.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020