Song Quotes - Page 19

• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  Sade Adu

  People, Purpose, Mines

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• It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

  George Harrison

  Evil, Magazines, May

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• Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

  Steven Adler

  Fall, Writing, Knowing

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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  Dierks Bentley

  Party, Singing, Stories

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• I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

  Luke Evans

  Dream, Lucky, Alive

  "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

  Paul Epworth

  People, Language, Pops

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Bob, Sound

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• You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  Zac Efron

  Writing, Guitar, Long

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

  Sia Furler

  World, Radio, Excited

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

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• You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

  John Prine

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  Song: Ain't Hurtin' Nobody, Album: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, 1995

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• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, People, Different

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• Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

  Sheryl Crow

  Nike, Macaroni

  Song: The Na-Na Song, Album: Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993

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• It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Church, Choir

  Song: Inmates, Album: From the Inside, 1978

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Nature, Silence

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

  Glenda Millard

  Heart, Long, Tears

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• And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Fans, Littles

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• A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

  Jamey Johnson

  Spiritual, Hymns, Singing

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• I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

  Justin Timberlake

  Naked, Ends, Controversy

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• I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

  Lou Reed

  Musical, Better Days, Diana

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Long, Poetry, Sparrows

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• Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

  Theocritus

  Music, Tomorrow

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• I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

  David Allan Coe

  Written

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• The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

  David Coverdale

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• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Senior, People, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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