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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
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can't.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my first complete song when I was 9.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
- Nov 07, 2020