Songs Quotes
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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees -
'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
Tom Dumont No Doubt
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I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
Ashlee Simpson -
I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?
Eric Bachmann -
Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.
Stephen Marley -
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful
Mike Harding -
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
Peter Tosh -
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
Courtney Love
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With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Kelly Clarkson -
I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.
Deanna Durbin -
I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
Ariel Pink -
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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I really don't know. His lyrics are pretty out there. Daniel's lyrics are pretty personal. They are mostly personal things, and I don't really know what they are all about. All of us are a band and I still don't have a clue what the hell he's on about! But I don't care. I like his lyrics and I think they are really good. I don't think it's the happiest stuff in the world. It's like in some of the songs, it's got dark music as well as the dark lyrics.
Ben Gillies Silverchair -
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
Billy Joel -
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
Brian May Queen -
I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
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I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.
Bernard Fanning -
I write simple songs, and people like that. They're mature enough to appeal to people who aren't teenage girls. Most of my fans are older, and it's nice to think the songs can appeal to middle-aged men and women.
Amy Macdonald -
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
Mary Doria Russell -
I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic