- Moon
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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.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
- Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.
- Sorrow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020