- Dance
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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
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.
- They Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.
- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I'm playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there's crowd-surfing. Most of the time there's a mosh pit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the set, and if they do, I normally ask them to come on out and take a verse and have fun. When that song is done, I am gone.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020