Song Quotes - Page 33

• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  Ryan Tedder

  Simple, Thinking, Brain

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• Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

  Tila Tequila

  Fun, Writing, Artist

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• People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, People, Different

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• I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Thinking, Type, Composer

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• A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

  Keith Urban

  Good Life, Life Changing, Thinking

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• I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

  Kate Voegele

  Writing, Busy, Bunch

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• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  Randy Newman

  If I Could, Written, Ifs

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Art, Kings, Writing

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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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• My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

  Kate Voegele

  Writing, Albums, Records

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• I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

  Frankie Valli

  Sock, Contemporary

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• Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

  Nick Moran

  Drama, School, Class

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

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• I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

  Sean Lennon

  Dream, Film, Myth

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

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• All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

  Chely Wright

  Writing, Play, People

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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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• The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

  Dar Williams

  Writing, Impact, Trying

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• If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

  Jessie Ware

  Thinking, Voice, Mad

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• That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

  Margaret Whiting

  Growing Up, Challenges, Trying

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• I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.

  Michael Weatherly

  Play, People, Asia

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• Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.

  Will Ferrell

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.

  Will Ferrell

  Sound, Able, Ability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

  Chely Wright

  People, Albums, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Bridges

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.

  Sheryl Crow

  Guitar, Nashville, Careers

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