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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Home, Writing

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• I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

  Richard Marx

  Song, Jobs, Play

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• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  Ed O'Brien

  Song, Thinking, Play

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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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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that video content is really important for artists these days. Not necessarily for MTV, but to really just get your name out there as a business card. Nowadays, when people want to hear a new song by an artist they immediately go to YouTube. Stream it.

  Matthew Mayfield

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• ... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Song, Essentials, Poet

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• Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

  Tina Turner

  Song, Roger, Easy

  "After 5-year break, Tina is still simply the best". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 2, 2005.

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• I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Song, Jesus, Leader

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• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Inspiration, Play

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• I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Home, Feelings

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• I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Brother, Writing

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• God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Song, Children

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.82, WaterBrook

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• A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

  Fred Shero

  Dream, Song, Men

  Message Shero wrote on the team's blackboard prior to Game 6 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals,

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Night, Yeah

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• Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Artist, Essence

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• There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

  Rumi

  Song, Spring, Fire

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• Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Couple, Years

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• Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Artist, Backbone

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• Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.

  Lesley Gore

  Song, Fun, Years

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• The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Writing, Problem

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, music.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• "I'm a new song and you're just a remix."

  Lil Wayne

  Hater, Song, Remix

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• My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Dad, Writing

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