Song Quotes - Page 28

• There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Inspiration, Careers, Crafts

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• Some people take pictures, I write songs.

  Lee DeWyze

  Writing, People

  "Lee DeWyze: Some people take pictures, I write songs". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2011.

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• My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

  Charlie Daniels

  Christian, Albums, Want

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• When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

  Chris Daughtry

  Writing, Guitar, Able

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• Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

  Don Dokken

  Writing, Rocks, Mind

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2008.

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• When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

  Evan Dando

  Writing, Firsts

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

  Glenn Danzig

  Writing, Pieces, Mood

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• I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

  Grey DeLisle

  Acting, Stories, Gigs

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• If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

  James Durbin

  Believe, Would Be, Yeah

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• I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

  John Fogerty

  Equipment, Old Song, Comfortable

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• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

  Katherine Dunham

  Thinking, Ed Sullivan

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• One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

  Mac Davis

  Real, Goal, Whistling

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

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Writing, Player, Hours In The Day

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• I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

  John Edward

  Heart, Night, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

  Katie Finneran

  Character, Journey, Singing

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Katie Finneran Talks I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, COMPANY, Sondheim, PROMISES & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 1, 2011.

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• My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

  Katie Finneran

  Growing Up, Kids, Two

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• You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

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• There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

  Tim Finn

  Years, Doe, Common

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

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• Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

  Tim Finn

  Writing, Pops, Pop Song

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

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• If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

  Naima Adedapo

  Titles, Would Be, Ifs

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• Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

  Rick Allen

  Heart, Thinking, Breathing

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Moving, Writing

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

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• When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

  Ryan Adams

  Waiting, Tunes, Behinds

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  Sade Adu

  Singing, I Can

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• When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

  Sherman Alexie

  Tape, Firsts, Constructs

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