Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.Alicia Keys
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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 -
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 -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
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 -
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
Harold Prince -
I'm a lover of songs.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann -
Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra -
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman -
We've written something like 900 songs in all.
Barry Mann
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Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
Hasil Adkins -
You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.
Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas -
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
Alicia Keys