- People
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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
No matter what, if you write a song that's great that everyone expects to be a hit, then everyone's going to be expecting another one from you. If you write a song that no one notices, you're going to want to write one that someone will.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
- Lipstick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.
- Coleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made. I don't know who made that song.
- Sister
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020