- Love
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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
With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
- Pie
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new material includes a Latin-flavoured song, some electric rock songs, and a ballad. Something strikes me, and I follow that. I'm as excited now as I was when I was 15.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020