- 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 don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I heard Sam Cooke was in the 'Malcom X' film. I was with my father, and that's the first time I heard his song. I remember my father telling me the story of Sam Cooke.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've sung the same song a million or a hundred thousand times, there are always moments when you drift off and go into automatic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from 'Cats.' What's it called? 'Memory?' Sends shivers up your spine.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.
- Lifetime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a song that can comfort you, and make you feel like I take you to 'Heaven.'
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty much making it up as we go as far as the sounds we're creating. Oftentimes, the song will be inspired by just a certain kind of block of sound that somebody creates.
- Nov 07, 2020