Song Quotes - Page 21

• Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

  Ben E. King

  Writing, Guitar, Play

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

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• When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

  Chad Kroeger

  Writing, Thinking, Luck

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• It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

  Chad Kroeger

  Honesty, Writing, Heart

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

  Charles Kelley

  Thinking, Artist, Names

  "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

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• If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

  Charles Kelley

  Years, Careers, Use

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• To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

  Hannah Szenes

  Peace, War, Eye

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• These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Radio, Yeah, Showers

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• Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

  Alison Krauss

  Thinking, Years, Together

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• I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Years, Six

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

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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Romantic, Lonely, Winter

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

  David Nail

  Writing, Honor, Trying

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• Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

  Roberta Flack

  Pain, Rock And Roll, Singing

  Song: Killing Me Softly with His Song, Album: Killing Me Softly

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• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  Young Jeezy

  Writing, Thinking, Sound

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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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• My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Piano, Auditions, Has Beens

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• I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

  David Nail

  Thinking, Want, Singers

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• To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

  Jason Newsted

  Firsts, Looks, Kind

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• I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

  Jessye Norman

  Done, Want

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• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Joanna Newsom

  Play, Keys, Celtic

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

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• I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

  Joanna Newsom

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

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• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Juice Newton

  Simple, Personality, Sound

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• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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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