Song Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  Zedd

  Focus, Sound, Down And

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• I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

  Zedd

  Artist, Unique

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Sex, Thinking, Two

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• Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Years, Wonderful, Mines

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• I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

  Nina Arianda

  Queens, Epic, Storytelling

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• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  Larry Norman

  Biblical, Blood, Sky

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• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  Gary Allan

  Thinking, Laughing, Make You Think

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• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  Gary Allan

  Writing, People, Trying

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• I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people, especially gospel music programs. I had become alert to the necessity of creating song titles, themes, and plots, and frequently people would call me and say, 'Turn your radio on, Albert, they're singing one of your songs on such-and-such a station.' It finally dawned on me to use their quote, 'Turn your radio on,' as a theme for a religious originated song, and this was the beginning of 'Turn Your Radio On' as we know it.

  Albert E. Brumley

  Religious, Creating, People

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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Guitar, Play, Tracy

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• I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

  Brian McKnight

  Hip Hop, Hips, Jazz

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• The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they’re performed. I’m born and raised in the Midwest, and my family’s been here for generations. This is where I’m from and how I think, and that’s reflected in the music I make.

  Pokey LaFarge

  Attitude, Thinking, Illinois

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• I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Writing, Men

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• I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

  Richie Sambora

  Musical, Trying, Looks

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• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  Kreayshawn

  Thinking, People, Sound

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• Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sex, Passion, Pride

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, Want, Known

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• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  Nate Ruess

  Moving, Tunes, Looks

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• Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heartbeat' was my apartment in New York City. 'My Sister' was at my apartment in Boston. I remember places and I remember what I was thinking when I wrote it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  New York, Memories, Thinking

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Betrayal, Spring

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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