- 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
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
- Guthrie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020