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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not doing anything intentionally to stay in the public eye. I'm staying true to my art, like I always have. The press, for whatever reason, decided to zone in on what is very common banter for me. It got worked out through song - the same way I work everything out.
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did 'Send In The Clowns' by Judy Collins. We did 'The Star Spangled Banner,' which came out on our third record.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took you from one song to the other, just like I would with a record of original stuff.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.
- Satisfaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020