Old Song Quotes - Page 2

• Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.354, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Baby, Grandmother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

  Avicii

  Song, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Play, People

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• When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of our career and with every song we're thinking, 'This is what's creating us.' Now, nothing is creating us. We're well-created. We're there. It becomes just pure pleasure and you become sort of an archeologist of your own music. You don't judge it, because what's the point? It's a 30-year-old song. It just becomes fun.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

  Elton John

  Song, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Men, Ohio

  "The Interview: The industry of Dolly Parton". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. May 11, 2014.

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• I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

  Linn Ullmann

  Song, Father, Writing

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• I never made promises lightly
  There may have been some that I've broken
  But I swear in the days still left
  We will walk in fields of gold

  Sting

  Song, Broken, Promise

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• Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Breakup, Song

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The time came around where the label was like, "Well, if you want something to come out in early 2017, it's going to have to be done by, like, so-and-so." So I plucked some of the old songs and wrote some new ones. Everybody keeps asking me, "Is this your L.A. record?" I was doing songs in a bedroom in New York, I was doing it in a bedroom in L.A. The only difference is when I look out the window, there's palm trees instead of snow.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Snow, Tree

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with new arrangements and new contexts as time goes by.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Essence, Singing

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

  Ellen Page

  Beautiful, Song, Cat

  Source: collider.com

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• Licensing is how indie rock people make a living these days, so whatever about that. But I want good films and good placement for the songs because I want to be exclusive. I don't want to just sign it away because I don't want songs to lose meaning, but I'm also...I don't care [that] Wilco sold songs to Volkswagen. That's great. They probably drive Volkswagens.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, Rocks, Indie Rock

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Hate, Different

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Math, Play

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• There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

  Five for Fighting

  Song, Nice, Years

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you play the old songs, it's awesome and I love it, but it's not work because everyone already knows it and it's easy. I have to break the crowd in on a new song and that's what is kind of cool and fun.

  Shwayze

  Song, Fun, Play

  Source: upc.fm

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• I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

  Juelz Santana

  Song, People, Giving

  Source: www.ihiphop.com

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• And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

  Charles Dickens

  Song, World, This Life

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.191, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.

  Ilona Andrews

  Song, Wall, Rip

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.168, Penguin

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• Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Song, Expression, Echoes

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• Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

  Annie Dillard

  Song, Voice, Whirlwind

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• Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Song, Moving, Names

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