- Me
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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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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought there was a way of marrying what I wanted to do with filmmaking with pop videos, which I found out through a couple projects just wasn't possible. That's not saying anything about the artist. If you're making an Usher video, you're making an Usher video, not a film with an Usher song in it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building visuals around a specific beat or riff that's grabbed me.
- Restaurant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, I can't listen to the song after the video's done. Sometimes I'll hear a song that I've worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I'll have this visceral physical reaction.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Blackbird' is a really beautiful song, and I actually recently started trying to learn it, and it's beautiful.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's favorite song ever is 'Imagine' because it came out around when she arrived in England.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020