Songs Quotes
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It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
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A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
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Songs aren't owned by anyone.
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The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
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With Kevin Drew, as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
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I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it all together.
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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.
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My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
