Song Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Every song is different.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Different

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  Aloe Blacc

  Writing, Thinking, Hip Hop

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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 got tired of playing other people's songs.

  Gregg Allman

  Tired, People, Individuality

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. December 13, 1997.

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• I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

  Herb Alpert

  Artist, Thinking, Car

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• I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.

  Jonathan Demme

  Years, White, Feelings

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Singing, Littles, Likes

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• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Play, Trying, Hearing

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• I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

  Joe Cocker

  Rays, Able

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

  Jon Crosby

  Want, Way, Sometimes

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• I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

  Ken Curtis

  Fighting, Gun, Middle

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• I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

  Mario Cantone

  Mother, Gay, Nuts

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• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  Neko Case

  Dog, Real, Writing

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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 am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Records, Belief, Reputation

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• My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

  Tom Chapin

  Real, Hero, People

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• I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

  Tom Conti

  Writing, One Day, Havens

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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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• Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

  Wayne Coyne

  Titles, Sometimes, Song Titles

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• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  Fefe Dobson

  Thinking, Changing Your Life, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

  Dave Davies

  Writing, People, Trying

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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Breakup, Drama, Dysfunction

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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Stars, Mean, Artist

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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