- Hate
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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
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend and I were talking about how I don't like carnival rides that make me dizzy. I looked up from the conversation and thought, 'Dizzy - that sounds like a great title for a song.' The next day, I went into the studio with some co-writers, and we wrote that song.
- Big Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much all the programming on our CDs is done by me personally, so I've kind of been able to have complete control of what sounds I'm looking for to complete a song.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020