Song Quotes - Page 15

• Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

  Adam Duritz

  Successful, Years, Careers

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• The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

  Rupert Holmes

  Writing, Rocks, Guarantees That

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• There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hardship, Toes, Cynicism

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Real, Singing

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• It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

  Bob Seger

  Writing, Long, Long Time

  "Bob Seger Changes His Tune About Detroit". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

  John Denver

  Writing, Trying, Messages

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• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Government, Watches

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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• My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Kids

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• My songs grow on people - like warts.

  Glenn Frey

  People, Warts, Grows

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• The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

  Clarence Day

  Men, Generations, Poet

  1921 The Crow's Nest,'Humpty-Dumpty and Adam'.

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• But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

  John Drinkwater

  Art, Connections, Use

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

  Shirley Horn

  Important, Musician, Needs

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• When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

  Kimbra

  Years, People, Albums

  "Kimbra - And Gotye - Rock SNL" by Allison P. Davis, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.

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• If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

  Neil Diamond

  Records, Wells, Feels

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• The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

  Neil Diamond

  Moving, Writing, Way

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Eight, Here I Am, Nine

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Growing Up, Rap, Singing

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

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Guitar, Play, Together

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• I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

  Lionel Blue

  Suffering, Sides, Weakness

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• I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Guitar, Years, Singing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

  Vernon Reid

  Taken, Together, Mural

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Cynical, Forever

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, College, Years

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, One Day, Sound

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• I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

  Peter Gabriel

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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