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• The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

  Kristin Hersh

  Writing

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• Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

  Daryl Hall

  Feel Good, Want, Feels

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• It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

  David Nail

  Believe, Taken, People

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Writing, Doe, Singers

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• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

  Randy Newman

  Kind, Insensitivity

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• When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

  Julian Casablancas

  Fun, Writing, Sick

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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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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Pleasure, Ecstasy

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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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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• 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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• 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 can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  Zedd

  Focus, Sound, Down And

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• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  Zedd

  Track, Goal, Needs

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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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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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Sex, Thinking, Two

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• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Self, Sick, Want

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• A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

  Liz Callaway

  Perfect, Trying, Sound

  "InDepth InterView: Liz Callaway & BOOM!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.

  Selma Blair

  Dream, Princess, Warrior

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• I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

  Nina Arianda

  Queens, Epic, Storytelling

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Jobs, People, Singing

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• I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.

  David Nail

  Home, College, Doors

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• Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

  Dhani Harrison

  Racist, Taco Bell, Bells

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

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• You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

  Taylor Swift

  Sweet, Guy, Voting

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hurt, Heart, Thinking

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  Randy Newman

  Years, Consistency, Decline

  "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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