- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'
- Dear Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't just listen to my songs; listen to any song which you feel would make a change in your life.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone has given a hit in the industry, and everyone talks about the song and artist, that's a hit.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It won't be fair on my part to name one song that brought me fame, but 'Suit Suit' from 'Hindi Medium' is close to my heart, and it quite turned tables for me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020