Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones -
Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
Garth Brooks -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
B. B. King
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri -
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Taylor Swift -
Every battalion has its marching songs.
Patrick MacGill
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I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly -
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra -
We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann
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Everything that you've been thru, God's going to use it for the betterment of your future!
Dale C. Bronner -
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.
Mia Hamm -
Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
Tara Strong -
I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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