Song Quotes - Page 22

• We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

  Adam Rich

  Writing, Trying, Band

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• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Thinking, Different

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

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• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  Paul McCartney

  Baby, Rock And Roll, Joy

  Song: Pipes Of Peace

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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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• Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

  Jimmy Reid

  House, Genius, Treasure

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• I really didn't think about song writing.

  Adam Rich

  Writing, Thinking

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• I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

  Graham Russell

  Successful, Love Is, Thinking

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

  Graham Russell

  Couple, Fall, Character

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

  Haley Reinhart

  Names, Best Day Ever, Live Every Day

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• My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

  Johnny Ramone

  Russia, Albums, Rockets

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Cities, Car

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Brother, Emotional, Thinking

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• I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

  Anita Baker

  Writing, Albums, More Money

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• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Self, Sick, Want

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• It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

  David Nail

  Believe, Taken, People

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• I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Writing, Thinking, Singers

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• When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Musician, Twenties

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• Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

  Patty Griffin

  Moving, Writing, Exercise

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Writing, Doe, Singers

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• I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

  Angel Haze

  Different

  "Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed". Interview with Laurie Tuffrey, thequietus.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Singing, Body

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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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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Sound, Want, Littles

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• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  Zedd

  Focus, Sound, Down And

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• You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

  Brian McKnight

  Hurt, Children, Kids

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