Songs Quotes
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I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
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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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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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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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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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It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
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Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.
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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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Songs aren't owned by anyone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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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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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
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I was a late-bloomer. For so long I was too focused on running Wolf World to sign up to play a few songs, raise a few dollars.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
