Song Quotes - Page 35

• Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

  Dave Grohl

  Records

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

  Don McLean

  Pie, Hopeful, American Pie

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• I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  Emeli Sande

  Artist, Simple, Proud

  "Emeli Sande: The other Adele goes from med school to music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 05, 2012.

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• I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

  Adele

  Girl, East, Spices

  "Mad about the girl" by Sylvia Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

  Adele

  Writing, Artist, People

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Children, Men, Swings

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

  Chris Cornell

  Coffee, Gone Away, Influence

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• I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

  Shania Twain

  Opinion, Share, My Own

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

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• I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

  Amy Winehouse

  Writing, Feel Better, Past

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• Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.

  Bruno Mars

  Writing, Talking, One Day

  "Bruno Mars Talks Super Bowl Show With Ellen". www.usatoday.com. February 10, 2014.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Believe, Things In Life

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of flowers, the wonders of nature, the magenta sunset, love, joy, peace of mind, the wonders of nature, the warm rain, the dew of the roses, the love of God, etc., are here for our enjoyment.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Life, Peace, Nature

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.

  Ester Dean

  Writing, Transition, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

  Lynda Barry

  Believe, Kids, People

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• Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

  John Legend

  Littles, Wells, Bits

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Writing, Men, Swamps

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• A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

  David Lee Roth

  Bangs, Hook, Crash

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• Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

  Alex Turner

  Writing, Waiting, Sometimes

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• In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Mother, Dream, Sleep

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• My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

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• I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Writing, People, Way

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• I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

  Hasil Adkins

  People, Wish, Trying

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• One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.

  Chad Channing

  Player, Guitar, Tuning

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• I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

  Andrew Dost

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "'We Are Young' and Odd Souls: Chatting With Mutemath’s Darren King and fun.’s Andrew Dost". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  Nelson Eddy

  Thinking, Doors, People

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