- Loneliness
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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
Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Mississippi, the first song that I ever remember hearing, that captivated my mind and transported me from my bedroom out to the West, is a song called 'Don't Take Your Guns to Town' by Johnny Cash. That's when I was 5-years-old. And I played that song over and over again. I pantomimed it in school for show-and-tell.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.
- Big Break
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020