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		When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
	
	  RaeLynn RaeLynn
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		When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
	
	  Olivia Wilde Olivia Wilde
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		I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
	
	  Mahalia Jackson Mahalia Jackson
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		When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
	
	  Walter Becker
			
			
				China Crisis Walter Becker
			
			
				China Crisis
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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.
	
	  Eddie Vedder
			
			
				Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder
			
			
				Pearl Jam
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		'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
	
	  Sam Hunt Sam Hunt
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		The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
	
	  Sam Hunt Sam Hunt
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		If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
	
	  Wayne Coyne Wayne Coyne
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		It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
	
	  Xavier Dolan Xavier Dolan
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		My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
	
	  Laura Benanti Laura Benanti
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		I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
	
	  Rachel Platten Rachel Platten
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		If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
	
	  Carl Perkins Carl Perkins