M.I.A. Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

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  Song, Made, Sample

  Source: thequietus.com

• I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.

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  Song, Cds, People

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

• With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

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  Song, Writing, Frustrated

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people. Right up until then, though, I think, "Of course everybody feels this way. This song's the same as the Greek national anthem."

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  Song, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

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  Song, Writing, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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