- Disappear
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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of singers, but they weren't doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a hip hop beat behind it to make it a different song.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.
- Old Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020