- Feeling
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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were about ready to go out on the road with Maiden, and Kerrang asked us to do an Iron Maiden tribute song. While we were home, we recorded that. And that was it.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
- Futility
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
- Harmonious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.
- Gonna
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- Nov 07, 2020