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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.
- Black Sabbath
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
- Nov 07, 2020
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020