Dwyane Wade Quotes
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
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No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
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Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
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When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
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I'm enjoying playing football, and as a footballer, that's what you want to do, and that is exactly what I've been doing.
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If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.
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You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
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Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
