Songs Quotes
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Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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All my songs are where I am.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
