- Night
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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
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, I have to admit, was the Chipmunks' 'Christmas Song.' I remember playing that song over and over.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly the most requested song in performance is 'Love is Here to Stay,' and that is a favorite for me.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
- Bombarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020