Songs Quotes
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I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
Esther Renay Dean
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One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.
Adolf Hitler
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You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
Butch Walker
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I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
Colin Meloy
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I think music is such an extension of who we are, and the fact that I've gone through as much as I have, good, bad, and ugly, has really helped to shape the songs that I picked.
Demetria McKinney
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I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.
Mike Shinoda
Linkin Park
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
Tony Bennett