- 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
I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really care about a song or lyrics; I'm really just interested in the way people emphasize words. That's what makes a strong impact on me.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors are infantilized so much.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020