Song Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.

  Tori Amos

  Honesty, Arizona, Corners

  Song: In The Spring Time Of His Voodoo, 1996

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• This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, Stupid, Downtime

  Song: A Little Green Rosetta

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• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  Stevie Wonder

  Rock And Roll, Make You Smile, Seems

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• These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Rock And Roll, Guy

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• You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Gay, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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

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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Romantic, Lonely, Winter

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fall, Mind

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

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• Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

  Alison Krauss

  Thinking, Years, Together

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• The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

  Deana Carter

  Fearless, Vulnerable, Feels

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• There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

  Teena Marie

  Party, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.

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• As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

  David Nail

  Writing, Honor, Trying

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• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

  Frank Ocean

  Stupid, People, Singing

  "Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

  Jessye Norman

  Done, Want

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• I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

  Joanna Newsom

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

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• I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, Years, Six

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

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• Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

  Michael Pitt

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

  Holly Valance

  Years, Want, Stills

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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 with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

  Graham Russell

  Thinking, Firsts, Terrible

  "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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• My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

  Kate Voegele

  Roots, Rocks, People

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• I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

  Graham Russell

  Simple, People, Simplicity

  "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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