- 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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spooky thing is that two weeks before the Grammys, I wrote down my goals, and one of them was, 'To be on the top of the Billboard charts with a song I wrote and performed.' ... It's completely unheard of.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found 'New Chain' by Col3trane, honestly, I couldn't stop playing it. It's a good road trip song because the beat just drives on.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
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- Nov 07, 2020