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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
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- Nov 07, 2020