- Summer
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you're like, 'Wow, he's singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he's yelling, 'You're so pretty!''
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
- Nov 07, 2020
With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020