Song Quotes - Page 29

• I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Father, Years, Firsts

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• Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

  Steven Adler

  Fall, Writing, Knowing

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• I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

  Creed Bratton

  Writing

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• And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Fans, Littles

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• It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

  George Harrison

  Evil, Magazines, May

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• Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

  Paul Epworth

  People, Language, Pops

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• I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Blessed, Writing, Rocks

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Bob, Sound

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• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  Zac Efron

  Writing, Guitar, Long

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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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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• I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

  Rupert Holmes

  Relationship, Tired, Long

  Song: Escape, Album: Partners in Crime

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• You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

  John Prine

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  Song: Ain't Hurtin' Nobody, Album: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, 1995

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• I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  Paloma Faith

  Writing, Political, Enough

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I started writing songs when I was eight.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Writing, Eight, Writing Songs

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• There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nature, Stars, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Peace, Hate, War

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Crazy, Dating, Making Love

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• It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Church, Choir

  Song: Inmates, Album: From the Inside, 1978

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• Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.

  Waylon Jennings

  Art, Winning, Media

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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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• Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

  Gram Parsons

  Religious, Jesus, Rivers

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• Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

  Theocritus

  Music, Tomorrow

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• I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

  David Allan Coe

  Written

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• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Senior, People, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kids, Player, Tape

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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