Song Quotes - Page 12

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  Nanci Griffith

  Views, Stories, Point Of View

  "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

  Donny Osmond

  Artist, Play, Safe

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  M. Ward

  Player, Two, Track

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  Kate Smith

  Years, Amazed

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• I learn my songs by ear.

  Kate Smith

  Ears

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• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  M. Ward

  People, Records, Interpretation

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• I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

  M. Ward

  Believe, Personal Values, I Believe

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• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  LaToya Jackson

  People, Enjoy

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• If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

  James Iha

  Together, Different, Band

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• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

  James Iha

  Trying, Band, Done

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• I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Years, People, Listening

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• When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

  Leighton Meester

  Guy, Singing, Particular

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• Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

  Luke Bryan

  Air, People, Watches

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• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  Samantha Barks

  Fun, People, Karaoke

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Les Miserables' Star Samantha Barks". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Writing, Diaries, Sometimes

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  Laura Mvula

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Albums, Have Faith

  "Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out". Interview with Kate Kiefer, www.pastemagazine.com. November 2, 2009.

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Musician, Twenties

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Pleasure, Ecstasy

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Writing, Doe, Singers

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• I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

  Angel Haze

  Different

  "Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed". Interview with Laurie Tuffrey, thequietus.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Singing, Body

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Musical, Use, Growing

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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Sound, Want, Littles

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