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• I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Hands, Stronger

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  Vince Gill

  Funny Things, People, Perception

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• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Features

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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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• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Stars, Attitude, Writing

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• My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

  Rita Coolidge

  Grandmother, My Grandmother

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

  Greil Marcus

  Music, Mean, Fighting

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Play, Differences

  "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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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 learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Couple, Play, Piano

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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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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• The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

  Chris Martin

  Perfect, Goal, Trying

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• I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

  Rita Coolidge

  People, Singers, Kind

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  M. Ward

  Giving, Perspective, Sound

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Dad, Real

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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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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• I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

  Morena Baccarin

  Cheesy, Road Trip, Windy

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

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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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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Writing, Player, Hours In The Day

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• None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

  Cheryl James

  Regret, Salt, None Of Your Business

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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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• These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

  Vivian Campbell

  Artist, Dna, Years

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 2011.

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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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• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Powerful, Writing, Music Is

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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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