Song Quotes - Page 4

• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Fear

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

  Don McLean

  Funny, Music, Work

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• A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Rain, Angel

  Song: #40

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• There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

  Stacie Orrico

  Inspirational, Life, Satisfaction

  Song: More to Life, Album: Stacie Orrico

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• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  Neil Diamond

  Sex, Hands, Touching You

  Song: Sweet Caroline

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• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

  John Berryman

  Funny, Drinking, Poetry

  1964 'Dream Song No.63'.

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• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

  Bootsy Collins

  Funny, Music, Fake

  "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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• It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

  James Taylor

  Relationship, Time, Long

  Song: You Can Close Your Eyes

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• God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

  India.Arie

  Voice, Different Faces, Creative

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

  Frank Sinatra

  Hurt, Pain, Loneliness

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I've really enjoyed playing live shows, because sometimes things we'll just happen - sometimes a song will go on for 10 minutes. It always depends on the crowd. But it's always kinda different, which is cool.

  SBTRKT

  Different, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

  Dolly Parton

  Love You, Grateful, Heart

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 12, 2012

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• Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

  Matt Corby

  Artist, Ideas, People

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.

  Lisa Loeb

  Perfect, Trying, Enough Time

  "Interview with Grammy-Nominated Singer/Songwriter Lisa Loeb". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Musical, Use, Growing

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• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  Larry Norman

  Biblical, Blood, Sky

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• Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

  Julian Casablancas

  Fall, Wake Up, Flow

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• If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

  Bryn Terfel

  Use, Produce, Instant

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• I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

  Angel Haze

  Different

  "Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed". Interview with Laurie Tuffrey, thequietus.com. November 9, 2012.

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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Sound, Want, Littles

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• Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

  Patty Griffin

  Moving, Writing, Exercise

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• You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

  Rick James

  Magic, Special, Trying

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Mar 16, 2015

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• When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

  Kimbra

  Years, People, Albums

  "Kimbra - And Gotye - Rock SNL" by Allison P. Davis, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Singing, Body

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• No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

  Skrillex

  Dancing, Worry, Dubstep

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

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