Song Quotes - Page 26

• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  Aloe Blacc

  Fun, Writing, Issues

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

  Bryan Adams

  Caring, Night, Feet

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• I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Thinking, People, Black

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• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  Vince Gill

  Dad, Play, House

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  Vince Gill

  Funny Things, People, Perception

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• My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

  Colin Hay

  Mother, Features

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• I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Passion, Order, Years

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• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  Jackson Browne

  Writing, Add, Extras

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• I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, People, Understanding

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• I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.

  John Lydon

  Writing, Fake, Doe

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

  Billy Gibbons

  Driven, Process, High Road

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• People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

  Todd Rundgren

  Music, People

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• Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

  Casey Kasem

  Used, Used To Be

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• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  Nanci Griffith

  Views, Stories, Point Of View

  "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  Kate Smith

  Years, Amazed

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• I learn my songs by ear.

  Kate Smith

  Ears

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• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  M. Ward

  People, Records, Interpretation

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• I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

  M. Ward

  Believe, Personal Values, I Believe

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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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• There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

  Glen Hansard

  Writing, People, Down And

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• If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

  James Iha

  Together, Different, Band

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• It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

  James Iha

  Trying, Band, Done

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• I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

  Lisa Loeb

  Simple, Games, Use

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

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• When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

  Leighton Meester

  Guy, Singing, Particular

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• Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

  Luke Bryan

  Air, People, Watches

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