Songs Quotes
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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.
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The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.
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'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.
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...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.
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I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.
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There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
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When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves.
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I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.
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I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
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The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
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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.
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I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
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It wasn't like the other songs. There was no story, no conversation. This was just the feeling, without words or pictures, and it had nothing to do with Luther or his clean, stinging guitar. It was the sound of being outside, of being alien. It was the pulse that ran under everything and never let you forget that you were strange, that the world hurt just to touch.
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I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
