Lewis Capaldi Quotes

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

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• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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  • Explain

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• 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
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
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• 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
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Prove

• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Worth
  • Heartbreak

• Every battalion has its marching songs.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Songs
  • Every
  • Marching

• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Story
  • Songs
  • Sing

• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Rubbish
  • Israeli

• A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Dad
  • Songs
  • Really

• We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Always
  • Songs
  • Vice

• It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
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• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Good
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• Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to go out there and write one yourself.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Songs
  • Afraid
  • Sing

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• I'd love to get to know or at least meet some of the women, such as Sheryl or Sarah. I know we won't have time to develop friendships with anyone, but I would love to get to know them.

  

  Leigh Nash Sixpence None the Richer
  • Time
  • Women
  • Know

• It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Light
  • Mean
  • Understanding

• Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Opinion
  • Values
  • Boys

• I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Rubbish
  • Requests