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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not super superstitious, but if I listen to a song and then I do well, then that becomes my song for however long it works for.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite' with Travis Scott.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like different moods, so whenever you in one mood, I got a song for that. And then you in a down or other type of mood where you really just wanna chill, I got that type of music, too.
- Nov 07, 2020
Use music to motivate you. If I had to pick one song to work out to on repeat, it would be Prince's 'Let's Go Crazy.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.
- Different Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, revealing different parts of my voice. I know what my voice is capable of, and I try to fit it to each song, evoke a mood.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.
- Credits
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020