Song Quotes - Page 40

• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Couple, Play, Saws

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Love You, Eye, Kissing

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• God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

  Joaquin Miller

  Stars, Profound, Silence

  Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.25

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• When you're standing in deep water
  And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
  And when you're drowning in deep water
  And you wake up making love to a wall
  Well it's these little time that help to remind
  It's nothing without love, love, love

  Jewel

  Wall, Deep Water, Making Love

  Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Feelings, Mind, Doe

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• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  Mahalia Jackson

  People

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• Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Feelings, Cures, Gospel Songs

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• People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

  Thalia

  People, Passionate, Affection

  "Singer Thalia Gets Personal, Emotional In ‘Growing Stronger’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

  PJ Harvey

  Artist, People, Listening

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• Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Spiritual, Laughter

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• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Journey, Order, Records

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

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• We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.

  Robert Browning

  Bidding, Done, Deeds

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.82, Everyman's Library

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• I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

  John Fogerty

  Work, Beer, Giving

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• Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

  Rich Mullins

  Doors, Expression, Submarines

  Song: Screen Door

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• I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

  Kaitlyn Dever

  Writing, Guitar, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Chicks, Explanation

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• The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

  Tove Styrke

  Challenges, Trying, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Looks, Checks, Streams

  "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

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• I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was a learning process. When I was working on that album I realized, for the first time, that I could write my own songs.

  Tove Styrke

  Writing, Albums, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

  Charlie Day

  Play, People, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, People, Important

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Rocks, Two

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

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• I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Strong, Growing Up, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

  Dave Grohl

  Guitar, Practice, Acoustics

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

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• If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

  Danny Brown

  Two, Lasts, Months

  Source: pitchfork.com

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