Song Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Sex, Thinking, Two

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• The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

  Kristin Hersh

  Writing

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• If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

  Daryl Hall

  Care, Ifs, I Care

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• I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

  Nina Arianda

  Queens, Epic, Storytelling

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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 want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  Gary Allan

  Thinking, Laughing, Make You Think

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• I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

  Gary Allan

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

  Dhani Harrison

  Racist, Taco Bell, Bells

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

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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Guitar, Play, Tracy

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  Randy Newman

  Years, Consistency, Decline

  "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually - I regret not doing that.

  Elena Tonra

  Girl, Regret, Should Have

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• Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.

  Anita Baker

  Doe, Albums, Theme

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• The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

  Denis Norden

  Comedian, Use, Pay

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• Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

  Bo Burnham

  Art, Self, Talking

  "Bo Burnham, comic 'most likely to earn £1m', goes from YouTube to your town". Interview with James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Congratulations, Self

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle

  Damien Dempsey

  Giving, Soul

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• Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Thinking, Names, Feelings

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• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  Kreayshawn

  Thinking, People, Sound

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• I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

  Nate Ruess

  Writing, Want, Known

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