- Hard
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never would have thought of doing that,' when you deconstruct it. It's something you really can't do sometimes when you're just listening to a song. You have to really get into it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.
- Nov 07, 2020
After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like 'Too Sentimental' is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.
- Close Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020